A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

You shape your own destiny.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.