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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost.
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.
Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!
I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.
We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.
Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.