Words we’ve heard. Words we’ve read. All of them inspirational, motivational, smart, funny, and true.
I’d rather be a hypocrite than be the same person forever.
— Ad-Rock
Pick me out a winner, Bobby.
— Roy Hobbs
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
You can teach technique. You cannot teach passion.
— Chef Mark Peel
Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.
— David Bowie
The world belongs to the energetic.
— R.W. Emerson
Be of good heart.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Some years ago I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection.
— Milton Glaser
People don’t buy what you do; People buy why you do it.
— Simon Sinek
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original..
— Ken Robinson
Creativity comes from limits, not freedom. Freedom, I think you don't know what to do with yourself. But when you have a structure, then you can improvise off it and feel confident enough to kind of come back to that.
— Jon Stewart
War was easier than daughters.
— Eddard Stark
I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear. “Only when you use a lot to say a little,” answered Tock.
— From “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster
Be of good heart.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man woman and child joined hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn’t matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they’ve got all the money! It just doesn’t matter if we win or if we lose. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER!
— Tripper (aka Bill Murray) from “Meatballs”
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival. And the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say “Man, what are you doin’ here?”
— Billy Joel, “The Piano Man”
Be a good person.
— Dr. Harold Kahn