Sam Altman Quotes

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

What motivates us is always new music.

Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses.

A movement only takes form from that first act. Exploring a curiosity, or a real passion, and being motivated by a desire to solve something - that's really the best way.

Be it 'Dare 2 Dance,' 'Man vs. Job,' or 'I Can Do That,' I have always taken up projects that is innovative. I want to try out different things, as that gets me going.