You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.