You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Bring them on.

Only you can control your future.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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 love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.