“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.”

Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

It’s only too late if you don’t start now.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

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.

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

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.

The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

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