“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

If you will be faithful to a few things, you will someday become the ruler over many things.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.

Too much energy is dedicated to worrying instead of applying.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.