Arianna Huffington Quotes

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

Art helped give me confidence.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.