Quotes on Inspiring

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.