Markus Persson Quotes

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.

I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.