Phil Keoghan Quotes

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

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.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.