When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

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.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I give the children education.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I only act from my heart.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.