The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.
Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.
It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
Desire is the very essence of man.
I've always had that personality that nothing was never good enough.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I know what I want to do even before I know why I want to do it.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
