What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
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And if it means you're getting a certa... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I r... MICHAEL IAN BLACK I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand y... KYRSTEN SINEMA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self... DAVID CHASE You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount o... CAROLINE KNAPP You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog, and it keeps a ru... 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DEBORAH DAY You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things oc... MORTIMER ADLER Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your... JOHN WOODEN I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ... JOEL SCHUMACHER I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be ... J. C. WATTS You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your... C. JOYBELL C. I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you... LAURA PREPON Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you'r... AARON TVEIT As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered... CHARITY SUNSHINE TILLEMANN-DICK When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The old... TOM COLICCHIO I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't nee... RYAN HALL You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things r... VANESSA BAYER At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certa... DAVID GUTERSON Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the the... AL LOPEZ You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're no... JULIA CAMERON Success is a lifestyle. If you want to be successful you need to operate at your optimal level. You ... AKIROQ BROST If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your... NANCY A. COLLINS One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to ... CARLTON CUSE I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in lov... ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don'... BRAD WENSTRUP When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the ... DREW HOUSTON And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away ... NEAL ASHER You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and ... DEBORAH DAY We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-... JOSH MCDOWELL I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your mus... GLORIA ESTEFAN I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y... BARRY SANDERS If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. ... AIMEE MULLINS You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no... SAM KINISON If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be ... BRENE BROWN If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people... PATRICK LENCIONI Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?r... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts g... NIC PIZZOLATTO How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because... MALCOLM MCDOWELL I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody els... MISSY ELLIOTT To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk ar... BILL CAMP Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your n... JEAN CHATZKY I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That'... ADRIAN PETERSON Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, y... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in t... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting. TINASHE It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down... ANDREW DOST Offering mobility options is a tremendous productivity boost. Customers are becoming ever more mobil... LARRY RITTER Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. WENDELL PIERCE If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working... PETER MAXWELL DAVIES If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the oppor... DANIEL CORMIER I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker. WALTER ISAACSON Life's true meaning is lightyears away from what the crowd says it is. In fact, if the crowd says it... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, w... AARON RODGERS Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship. DAN GABLE What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to... SUSAN CAIN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's,... SYLVESTER STALLONE Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay awa... TED OLSON
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JAMES DEAN Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im... JAMES DEAN There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. JAMES DEAN The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. JAMES DEAN You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'... JAMES DEAN Racing is the only time I feel whole. JAMES DEAN Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life... JAMES DEAN I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ... JAMES DEAN Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. KEVIN JAMES The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... JAMES WOODS I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p... JAMES HIBBERD Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current... WILLIAM JAMES Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th... JAMES HOWE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... WILLIAM JAMES Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,... JAMES LANKFORD I'm a big cardigan sweater guy. JAMES FRANCO No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... JAMES MARSDEN I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they... LILY JAMES You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a... JAMES SUROWIECKI Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho... JAMES HECKMAN Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. WILLIAM JAMES No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin... JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability. LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l... LEBRON JAMES