Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

All that time I spent chasing Yale was time I could have been using to actually make a difference in the world. Bravery, not perfection, was the key that unlocked all the doors I've walked through since.

If you want to build something fantastic, just do it. Who is stopping you?

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Work on something that matters. Have courage.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

If I convince myself that I'm going contest in West Coast, I will go. It doesn't matter who else comes because that's your belief.

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing.

Just do what makes you happy and try. Just go out and audition.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.