Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

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

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What is not started will never get finished

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

How do you look at someone you love and tell yourself it's time to walk away?

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

The older I get the better I used to be!

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

First come, first served

On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

Coaches who have been players in the league they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

When love is not madness, it is not love.