Andrea Hirata Quotes

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

The moment of change is the only poem.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I've always lived in a city.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.

I feel like I have time to think when I'm in L.A. There's something about the spaciousness of it.