Quotes on Inspiring

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.