All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.

If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

'The Wedding Singer' was my first role ever! It took me, like, 20 takes to say my one line. I went home and cried!

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time.

My top tips for deep sleep are to switch off your laptop and mobile at least 30 minutes before bed and leave them in another room. Ditch the bedroom TV; listen to music instead. Get a comfortable eye mask. It takes getting used to, but trust me, it will allow you to sleep deeper and longer.

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.