...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

In Hamburg we played for 8 hours a day! John Lennon, regarding experience in honing talents

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.