It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
Kanye WestWhen you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.
RihannaCertainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.
EminemPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil GibranI seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen KellerI treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LeBron JamesThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William JamesThe image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis PresleyMen admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.
Kevin GatesI wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
Lady GagaWhat I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David BowieThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinI felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David BowieNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
BuddhaI don’t know what drives me to succeed.
Adam SandlerI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert EinsteinMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich NietzscheI never do anything that I don’t want to do.
Kevin HartI have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence NightingaleYou know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.
Dave Grohl‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘
DJ KhaledFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil GibranI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonI have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
Edmund HillaryKnowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil GibranMy father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne DyerThe art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John RuskinI know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.
Bruno MarsMany people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.
Brene BrownWhat a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.
Eckhart TollePick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey HepburnThe artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOlder people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.
Steve JobsA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya AngelouSuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert SchweitzerThe day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.
Kevin HartAs long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
Kanye WestI’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.
Joel OsteenMusic, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen KellerI do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
Amy WinehouseEach morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliYoung people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis BaconFor people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.
Tom BradyMy philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Anthony HopkinsEvery collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.
Brian EnoI was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.
Abby Lee MillerSometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn MonroeDo not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie ChanPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David ThoreauMeditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
Alice WalkerAny good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel WashingtonAt one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker