Paul Vixie Quotes

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but for me, it's about pushing to the point where I can be Mark Walhberg, Ryan Murphy, or Shonda Rhimes. I want to be at that table in terms of bringing new voices in.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.