Mary Garden Quotes

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

A movement only takes form from that first act. Exploring a curiosity, or a real passion, and being motivated by a desire to solve something - that's really the best way.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.