It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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.
