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

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.