科學是為了那些勤奮好學的人，詩歌是為了那些知識淵博的人。

古今中外，凡成就事業，對人類有作為的無一不是腳踏實地艱苦攀登的結果。

創新人才的基本要件――負“職責”肯領悟，勤“動手”不怕錯，守“紀律”重團結。

非經自我發奮所得的創新，就不是真正的創新。

沒有任何動物比螞蟻更勤奮，然而它卻最沉默寡言。

對搞科學的人來說，勤奮就是成功之母。

人為某事而誕生，並不是為無所事事而誕生。

哪裡有天才，我是把別人喝咖啡的功夫，都用在工作上的。

業精於勤而荒於嬉，行成於思而毀於隨。

路是腳踏出來的，歷史是人寫出來的。人的每一步行動都在書寫自己的歷史。

生命的用途並不在長短而在我們怎樣利用它。許多人活的日子並不多，卻活了很長久。

攀登上一個階梯，這固然很好，只要還有力氣，那就意味著必須再繼續前進一步。

勞動教養了身體，學習教養了心靈。

在天才和勤奮兩者之間，我毫不遲疑地選擇勤奮，她是幾乎世界上一切成就的催產婆。

我們每個人手裡都有一把自學成才的鑰匙，這就是：理想勤奮毅力虛心和科學方法。

什麼是天才！我想，天才就是勤奮的結果。

不存在沒有熱情的智慧，也不存在沒有知能的熱情，如果沒有勤奮，也不存在熱情與才能的結合。

天才就是最強有力的牛，他們一刻不停地一天工作十八小時。

時間是個常數，但也是個變數。勤奮的人無窮多，懶惰的人無窮少。

求學的三個條件是：多觀察多吃苦多研究。

如果你富於天資，勤奮可以發揮它的作用；如果你智力平庸，勤奮可以彌補它的不足。

形成天才的決定因素應該是勤奮，有幾分勤學苦練是成正比例的。

攀登頂峰，這種奮鬥的本身就足以充實人的心。人們必須相信，壘山不止就是幸福。

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Vote early and vote often.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry.

Cats always seem so very wise when staring with their half closed eyes. Can they be thinking Ill be nice and maybe she will feed me twice

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

I am my own superhero.

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

I style myself and choose what to wear based on what I feel good in it.