You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

Every 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.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

My drive is other people’s success.

I believe in being an innovator.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Before all else, be armed.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

I 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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘