Kurt Elling Quotes

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

I want to be a director - and you need to get out there and do it, you can't wait 'til it comes to you... I'd give anything to be able to do what Ron Howard's done.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Anything that can be imagined can be accomplished.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I'm a rather multifaceted person - or at least I like to fashion myself as such - so my dreams are multifaceted. For example, I had a dream of winning a Grammy, right? I've done that three times over.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

In every sport, there will be struggle and obstacles, but a victory which comes easily is no victory.