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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

I am hoping for a long career.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judges are.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.