When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Elon MuskAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleIt is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim RohnStrong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
Wayne DyerEvery band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
Brian EnoI can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
Joyce MeyerWe need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack ObamaPeople wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas AdamsI don’t think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. RowlingNature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David ThoreauThe thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy.
J. K. RowlingMen weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady GagaI think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray BradburyI have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert FrostI don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Lady GagaMy only scheme was to be a rapper.
EminemYou have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TolkienBecause of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Thich Nhat HanhWriting is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.
Paul AusterI 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.
Alice MunroI welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
Brian EnoTo some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
David ByrneI still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.
Dolly PartonO Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.
George LucasIf a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady GagaI subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?
David ByrneIn a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
Maya AngelouThere are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest HemingwayMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston ChurchillThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
Tennessee WilliamsStand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
Kevin HartEvery man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Albert CamusHow many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert HubbardIt’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.
Tom BradyBasketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.
Stephen CurryBarack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. ColeHonestly, I never really put the mic down.
EminemIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
Noam ChomskyGreat things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van GoghI am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston ChurchillArt is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. RooseveltGreat industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
Jeff BezosMy goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.
Kevin HartI’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
Terry PratchettIf you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Lou HoltzAll my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Ray BradburyI wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Conor McGregorSuccess is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily DickinsonI wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
Lady GagaOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David ThoreauI like being a writer.
Terry PratchettI can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.
RihannaIf I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Anne FrankMy superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.
Virat KohliI always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
Kendrick LamarNobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel JohnsonThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali