Spike Jonze Quotes

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

I think Splash made people realize that I was still alive, and I think I inspired a lot of people. I have people coming up to me all the time in the airport saying, "Hey, you inspired me to learn how to swim!" "You inspired me to start moving around more." "You inspired me to start doing more for myself." So that was good. But mostly I took it because nobody had given me a job. And you know what really matters in life, right?

What drives me is truly inspiring people to realize they can live more creative and simple lives.

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. That's where I feel like I'm a role model. Maybe not to everyone, but for a lot of minorities, I am, and I kinda love that - the role model for the underdog.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.