Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I don't want to be complacent.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

You have to challenge yourself and things happen from there.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.

The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

Even if you're not ready to live at your full volume, turn it up halfway and get there.

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.

We spend too much time as people thinking about what we don't have instead of actually making a change, and we just need to make that change now because we're being giving the opportunity.