If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
In order to live fully, you must understand that your experiences in life don't determine your constant feelings; your repeated interpretations of them always do.
Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.
Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.
Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.
Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.
everything you do doesn’t need praise. if you’re aware of your intention the glory is already yours. the constant need for acknowledgement and approval will divert your purpose.
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for the money - Virginia Woolf
I don't want to have to save your life,' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.
I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.
