Nick Quotes
...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.
I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.
I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.
Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.
I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.
I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."
It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.
No matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, God knows it. He is with you. He is going to pull you through.
I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.
Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.
Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.
Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.
Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.
Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.
I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
The inclusion of slopestyle in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.
Don't GIVE UP. And know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you JUST THE WAY THAT YOU ARE.