If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
RUSSELL SIMMONSEmbrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
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