There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Football is all about fans.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I’m chasing perfection.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.