"Motivation is the electrical power that activates the engine of success." -Remez Sasson
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt." -E. St. Elmo Lewis
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." -Samuel Butler
"In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Makepeace Thackeray
"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself." -Francis Crawford
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom." -Cyril Northcote Parkinson
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope." -Ursula K. LeGuin
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" -Richard Exely
"It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age." -Joseph Addison
"You write a hit the same way you write a flop." -Alan J. Lerner