Mel Brooks Quotes

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

We have to always set an aspiration for ourselves and then strive to get there.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I'm hungry for more.

Ambition is a form of creativity.

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.