Quote collection
271 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?"
"You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall."
"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school."
"I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be."
"Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times."
"If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period."
"I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that."
"Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard"
"I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities."
"The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it."
"If you want somethin', go get it. Period."
"I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things."
"Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be."
"I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be."
"When you create art, the world has to wait."
"She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself."
"I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home."
"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy"
"The keys to life are running and reading."
"I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation."