Ben Nicholas Quotes

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

I just have to make sure that, whenever an opportunity arises, I keep taking them.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!