Steven Klein Quotes

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

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.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

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.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.