Marla Gibbs Quotes

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

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

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

I don't have a goal.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

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

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

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.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Lil Wayne'll make you wanna jump up, get three jobs, write a song, and do a movie!

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

I really chase the things that I want.

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

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