When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Lost time is never found again.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Computers make me totally blank out.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Be not a slave of words.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I am just one human being.