Peter McWilliams Quotes

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

You can do more, you can always do more.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

Let us then, be up and doing.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

If you have a vision, do something with it.