Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Get out of the blocks run your race stay relaxed. If you run your race you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.