Rita Moreno

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Then there’s the story of ill-fated love. It’s universal.

I love the people here. I love New York.

The reason there weren’t any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn’t have the money to take those kind of classes.

Apparently, I think it’s Columbia Records has Betty Wand’s name on all of the stuff that I did, too, and that’s made me very, very unhappy.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn’t thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don’t have them.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

In a lot of ways it is easier to do things on a large scale. It is easier to build a skyscraper in Manhattan than it is to buy a bungalow in the Bronx. For one thing, it takes just as much time to close a big deal as it does to close a small deal. You will endure as much stress and aggravation; you will have all the same headaches and problems. It is easier to finance a big deal. Bankers would much rather lend money for a big project than for a small one. They are more comfortable investing money in a big prestigious building than they are a rundown house in a bad section of town. If you succeed with the big project, you stand to gain a lot more money.

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, “Nothing is impossible!!!”

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.