You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side; maybe for years. You get scared. He said then he thought he was coming out of a slump.

If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

It is not possible to have fun when you try.

Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

I'm just sayin', I don't like fun

You can't make a comeback if you don't start.

For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.

[John] "I tell you, Henry, I did not want to grow up. I figured if I grew up, I would stop having fun."
"Something change your mind?"
"No. I was right! You do stop having fun, or maybe the things that were fun when you were a kid stop being fun. For a while I just did 'em more, faster, harder, trying to get the fun back, but it didn't work."

When you're knocked on your back and you life's a flop,
When you're down on the bottom and there's nothing else but to shout to the top!

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.

Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.

You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down.