I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
No pressure, no diamonds.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for you.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
If you don't fail, you're not even trying.
Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
Do one thing every day that scares you. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'
Failure is something which everybody has to face. It is part of life.
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
