Howard Rheingold Quotes

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

You gotta make your own fun. That's right, listen to that mother of two, she knows what I'm talking about.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I'm a free spirit.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

The goal for me, always, is to have fun, and to kind of intentionally be unexpected and go against the dress code a little bit.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?