Laini Taylor Quotes

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

Knock the 't' off the 'can't'

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

You are victors, not victims!

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

Standing up for what you believe is right, as well as standing up for what you believe is funny, standing up for what you believe is cool. As we found each other and the music that we do, we get to live out all of those things. That's what Run The Jewels is: it's all of those aspects of our personality.

The good thing about most of the girls that I've met on the road is that, regardless of whether they're cute or not, man - they can bring it onstage, which is inspiring not just for young girls and young people in general but for myself because then it makes me want to step it up.

The artist I would love to be is inspiring and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but still independent.

I want to be a strong voice, period.

Sometimes confidence is everything.

You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.