Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.