Quotes on Inspiring

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.