Ice Cube Quotes

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

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement.

Even if you’re not yet an entrepreneur, you can be entrepreneurial in everything you do. If you view each stop as an opportunity to learn something, there is always something you will take away from that experience.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.