The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust – and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Let everyone else call your idea …
Let everyone else call your idea crazy … just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.
– from Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight
Acting is like building out a …
Acting is like building out a new personality for yourself from scratch.
– from Will book by Will Smith
Nothing lasts for ever, except possibly …
Nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.
– from The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared book by Jonas Jonasson
Nothing soothes the soul like a …
Nothing soothes the soul like a gallop in the sunshine.
– from The Women book by Kristin Hannah
God, when I cross the truth …
God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it, the consciousness to recognize it, the presence to personalize it, the patience to preserve it, and the courage to live it.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
I believe that the invention of …
I believe that the invention of Bitcoin is the kind of thing that comes around once in a lifetime; perhaps once in many lifetimes.
– from Inventing Bitcoin book by Yan Pritzker
Everyone wants to cut back on …
Everyone wants to cut back on stress, because stress kills. I say bullshit. Stress is what brings you to life. Let it motivate you, make you work harder.
– from Relentless book by Tim Grover
Life is so damn, damn, damn …
Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
– from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
You should accept who you are …
You should accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren’t, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted façade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.
– from Let’s Pretend This Never Happened book by Jenny Lawson