Kamasi Washington Quotes

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary.

There's so much to do in life, and hopefully I will do it all.

And I hope you find it, what your looking for, and I hope it's everything you dreamed your life could be and so much more

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

My life is a beautiful struggle.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.