The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.