You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.
I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
We were just a high school band that loved music, you know?
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.
There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.
I would be very happy if my career ended the way it started.
The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and I didn't come from circles of power. I didn't come from the country club; I came from the town park.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.
The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.
My first playpen was a cardboard box.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
