“How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?”

“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

Tomie dePaola (1934) American children's illustrator and writer

“You have to try, you have to do everything you can.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.”

Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) American writer and philosopher

“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

“You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer