Shaquem Griffin Quotes

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

I just like doing things from my own head.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

I don't study; I create.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

I'm limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don't dwell on celebrity.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

As a creative person, you have to keep going. There's no defined career path. There's no security.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.