My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Do everything to the best of your ability.
I am one of those cats who doesn't believe in putting everything from your personal life out. I come from the motto 'if they know less it's better.'
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.
Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?
I'm absolutely scared and I absolutely have reservations, but sometimes you need to find that deep down in you to bring out the best performance of yourself, to bring out the best version of yourself, but yep I'm nervous and I'm scared.
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.
There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and introduce yourself, and times when it's best to let your male cameraman or producer do the talking and hang back until you've felt out the situation.
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.