“Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.”

Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.

If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.

DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

Time is clay; make something.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.

I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it’s like food.

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn’t know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I’m just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

You don’t know how to do something, until after you’ve done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we’ve already done. There’s no inspiration in that.

Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting.

I’m my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I’ve been through so much, just in my life.

I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.