Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
CreativityExpressionMindsetPerformanceResponse Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.
GrowthPerseveranceResilienceStruggleTriumph Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
ArtistryCharacter DevelopmentCreativityFilm-makingStorytelling Characterisation is more important to me than the script. A decent story and extraordinary characters can do wonders for a film, but you cannot do it the other way around.
DistractionMedia InfluenceMental HealthSocietyTechnology People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.
ConfidenceEveryday LifeIdentityObservationPerception Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.
HistoryIdentityNarrativeSelf ReflectionTradition Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
ConfidenceCreativityFreedomSelf-ExpressionSuccess Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
FaithHopePerseveranceTrust I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
Environmental ConsciousnessPersonal ValuesVegetarianism I am an eco-friendly person and a vegetarian.
ArtistryCreativityFilm-makingImpactInnovation Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
Career ChallengesCreativityPersonal ExpressionPublic PerceptionWork and Income It's a strange position to be in. Not only the fact that I'm trying to live off work that is personal, but how you get the money for that is racing around the country and smiling for people and selling the record, you know what I mean?
ApproachEfficiencyPersonal CareSelf-ImprovementSimplicity You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
EnvironmentPerformanceResilienceTimingUncertainty A player can have all the quality and everything it takes to play for a big-six team or to play for the best teams in the world but then sometimes it happens and it doesn't work out. It's not because of the player or the club, sometimes it's just the environment, it's the wrong timing.
Gun SafetyLegislationMass ShootingsMental HealthPublic Policy The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
CreativityHumorIdentityMusicRecognition One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.
CreativityEveryday LifeImaginationParentingResourcefulness This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
ComplainingConsequenceMoralityNegativity If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
AngerConsequencesEmotional RegulationSelf-Control People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
AdaptabilityCoping MechanismsEnduranceMental HealthResilience There have been times when things get stuck in my throat, but you just work it up or down. Like how a swimmer probably can't imagine drowning - their bodies are so used to being in the water. I'm so used to shoving things down my throat.
CultureFoodHeritageIdentityTradition I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.
ArtistryCourageEnduranceInnovationRisk Taking When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
ControlIndividualityLibertyObedienceResistance Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
AwarenessCourageEqualityRacismStruggle A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Asking and ReceivingHumor and PerspectivePreparation and Resources Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
CreativityExpressionInspirationObservationStorytelling Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
Cultural IdentityNatural BeautyPatriotism I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
CriteriaDecision MakingGrowthSelf Reflection I took some time... to kind of check in with myself, sit in silence, and do all the things that we're supposed to do in order to grow. During that time, I came up with little criteria like 'This is how I will choose jobs. Tier 1 is, if it hits three out of these four, then I'm going to make an automatic yes.'
Life PerspectiveMortalityReflectionSelf-awarenessWisdom You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
HopeOvercoming ChallengesPreparationRacism Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
CourageEqualityPatriotismSacrificeUnity No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
BeautyFamilyHumilityValue It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
InsightIntelligenceMoralityMotivationWisdom Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
DiplomacyInternational RelationsMilitary ActionPoliticsTerrorism But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
CommunityCompassionEmpathyResponsibilitySupport 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
ConsensusHaitiPlanningProgressivismVision But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.
FamilyHistoryLossResearchResilience In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
DevotionFaithPrayerWork 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
AssertivenessBoldnessConfidenceDeterminationStrength I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
Cultural IdentityHistorical ReflectionHuman RightsJusticeReligious Practices This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
