Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis BaconI subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?
David ByrneI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnIt’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
Jim MattisI hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy CarterSometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham BellIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore RooseveltLove and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
David BowieIf you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray BradburyThere is no great genius without some touch of madness.
AristotleAs a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
BonoThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanIf you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.
Dwayne JohnsonYou can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. SeussWhy go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?
Conor McGregorAction expresses priorities.
Mahatma GandhiGenius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Wayne DyerOpportunity makes a thief.
Francis BaconThe debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl JungConcentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham BellIf you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Huey NewtonPeople respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel OsteenI find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
Oscar WildeEveryone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve JobsYour success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.
Jocko WillinkStupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Karl LagerfeldTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel JohnsonThere’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous HuxleyI think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo CoelhoI have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
Dolly PartonChange is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce MeyerAnytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor SwiftNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham BellI’m not a bad person.
Abby Lee MillerWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert EinsteinWe all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.
Bill GatesWine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel JohnsonI’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘
Joel OsteenI knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.
Nipsey HussleGreat things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George EliotYou’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou HoltzEverything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe BryantStorms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly PartonCowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayI break ground. I trailblaze.
Dwayne JohnsonNo man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon HillA word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily DickinsonLet others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Jim RohnYou’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.
Will RogersTo make headway, improve your head.
B. C. ForbesEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William JamesI just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
Clint EastwoodI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerYou must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim RohnAnd obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Richard BransonI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck