If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
You can observe a lot just by watching.
When things go wrong don't go with them
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Well done is better than well said.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.