will.i.am Quotes

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

I enjoy building more than managing.

I go to class every day with the future Facebook and Twitter and Google employees, the future innovators and entrepreneurs who might have the next big thing. Knowing that and seeing their success and work ethic makes you want to be successful. It impresses me every day. It humbles me, too.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

Moment to moment, I'm very much just feeling and trying to synthesize what I'm taking in so it can come out musically. I'll continue to do that. I'm also someone who really likes to push themselves into new situations with new people and try to learn from them. I will be very happy to continue doing that, if people let me.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

I'm trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it's not like I turn it off. I don't make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.