Wayne Dyer Quotes

No man was ever great by imitation.

We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.