Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Our intention creates our reality.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.