The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon HillI can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.
Frank OceanI think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.
Tom BradyIf you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van GoghI have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettSome people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston ChurchillArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMost of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
Brian EnoIf I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
Paul AusterSo long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz KafkaThere are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
Jim RohnIf anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
Elon MuskThe thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack ObamaIf you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
Jeff BezosPeople still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt DisneyI can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.
David ByrneIt’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert EinsteinJapan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve JobsPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil GibranImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinDesign is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve JobsIdeas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim RohnWe allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt DisneyWriting saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Alice WalkerI’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.
Amy WinehouseI create stars.
Abby Lee MillerThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador DaliInnovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.
Bill GatesGovernments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill GatesThere are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff BezosI consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
Alice WalkerI’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.
Brian EnoI am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles BukowskiBut Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Steve JobsWhenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt DisneyVan Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
Wayne DyerLet us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar WildeMasterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia WoolfI just genuinely feel that that’s what you do when you’re an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
Lady GagaI’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle ObamaThe engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.
Steve JobsPeople like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Brian EnoIf you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
Jeff BezosI put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar WildeEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinI think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob DylanRomantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar WildeI think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
Taylor SwiftI 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.
Brian EnoWhat is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador DaliThere’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.
Richard BransonThe space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
Elon MuskI think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
Clint EastwoodOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Kevin HartI can express myself.
Amy WinehouseWhat inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
Billie EilishI have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert FrostWhen Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George CarlinMan is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle