There’s only one way to the top: hard work.

As I sit here now, when I take off my shoe and I look down at my scar, I see beauty in it. I see all the hard work, all the sacrifices. I see the...

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop.

The way to attract good luck is to be reliable in a valuable area. The more you repeatedly deliver value, the more people seek you out for that value. Your reputation is a magnet. Once...

I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second...

Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call...

The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and...

I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave,...

Work your craft; until it becomes an art from.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

You’ll do better work if you’re bored rather than busy.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

You have to work a bit harder to offend me because I’m from the home of some of the best racism in the world. I’m a snob when it comes to racism.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some...

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at...

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

For days and weeks on end one racks one’s brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or...

They see me working … but the result of my work escaped them,

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do–tell stories and entertain.

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe...

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal...

start to work in synergy.

We’re fortunate enough to work with everybody when they’re just getting started.

But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person “who lives as though dead.” We need to light our own torch in order to carry on. But the life...

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

We do try to work with groups that want to hold marches or protests to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise their rights if that’s what they want to do. This request was...

Don’t differentiate between “This is a job” and “This is what I’m doing for fun.” It’s all simultaneous.

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

Darrell couldn’t throw strikes during the fall of his freshman year. We work so much with our pitchers in the fall on fastball command and his fastball is his No. 3 pitch.

Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are dependent on too many things and too many other people… I wonder how many things in the...

unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it’s always a desk. There’s always...

We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not...

It’s a great sign. I’ve trained hard. This is why you work so hard, so that physically you can do it. Something like a nerve, you never know when it’s going to be an issue....

Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?