Quotes on Bad Ass

I am not the least afraid to die

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.