George Carlin Quotes

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

As one door closes, another one shuts.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

All things seem possible in May.

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.