The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisI think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.
Maya AngelouThe way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghImpossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon BonaparteThose who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador DaliLife and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuI believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
Robert Baden-PowellThere’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
David ByrneThat’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.
Angelina JolieI draw from the crowd a lot.
Kobe BryantI believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.
Joel OsteenWhatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiI always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt DisneyTomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John WayneIf I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul AusterThere is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van GoghNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil GibranNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamIn modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar WildeIt usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
Steven WrightWhen I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
Ernest HemingwayWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann HesseNo man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon HillI’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
Mr. TI went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
Lady GagaIt’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
Jordan PetersonMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoGreat thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore RooseveltLife isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. NixonThe man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert HubbardDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn every parting there is an image of death.
George EliotLife’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?
Conor McGregorI was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.
Keanu ReevesPeople who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.
Paul AusterIf I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya AngelouLife is precious.
John KennedyImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusDoing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.
Nipsey HussleMany of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.
AuroraMy dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel JohnsonThe poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
AristotleThe great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray BradburyI take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.
Conor McGregorThe world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowiePeople don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
Mark ZuckerbergThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotI have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
VoltaireI have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
Elizabeth KennyWe are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. KennedyI’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
Lady GagaThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesWhatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
Stephen CurryWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingLife is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia WoolfI have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Charles BukowskiIn this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.
Stephen Covey