Inspiring Quotes

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

You can if you think you can.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than just eating breakfast you know.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.