Joshua Ferris Quotes

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Being a parent, it is heartening to see your child wake up every day at 5:45 in the morning to pursue his passion and then manage school as well.

Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.

I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Motivation comes from effort.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

If your dream requires patience, give it.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.