“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.”

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Success is the result of hard work.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.

Friendship is the heaven of life.

This problem, once solved, will be simple.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

The more things you can approach with an “attack” mindset, the better off you will be.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music – I take what I want and leave the rest.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.