Emily Saliers Quotes

As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

You have to squeeze every creative moment and be grateful.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

I always want to remain inspired.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.