Ernie Kovacs Quotes

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

I wanted to prove that a young boy coming from Africa was able to succeed and achieve a lot.

The underdog status suits me just fine.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Don't let weeds grow around your dreams.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Love is for children and dimwads.