Refreshed Perspective Quotes

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.

If you get back into the beginner mindset, you can unearth an energy and a fire that I didn't know I could even still possess.

The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.

I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

You need balance in your life all-around. When you find that balance and relax and get away from the game a little bit - and when you come back, you just go that much harder.

For me, 40 is the new 18, because I still act like a big kid.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!