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I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything!

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I never waste time looking back.

In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing....'Love thy work', and you will be successful..... If you do things just because you have to, then you will never enjoy work. Nor will you do a good job if you do it simply out of a sense of duty. stress is often a by-product of such passive or negative attitudes toward work. Paradoxically as it may sound, love of work can be the best medicine for workaholism.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.