GREATNESS CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE
"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch." Jean-Luc Godard
"Do exactly as you please - if you still trust what seems to please you." David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realising how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go." Anthony Bourdain
"A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at." Bruce Lee
"Be curious, not judgmental." Walt Whitman
"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing...an actor, a writer...I am a person, who does things...I write, I act, and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun." Stephen Fry
"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room." Frank Lucas, American Gangster
"You stop explaining yourself when you realise people only understand from their level of perception." Jim Carrey
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." Charles Bukowski
"I'm more focused on doing great things. So, whether that takes a day, ten years; it doesn't matter to me. Time is a man-made concept. You can do whatever you want with it." Jay-Z
"I don't always know what I want. But I do know what I don't want." Stanley Kubrick
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score... Many, many men have have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent." Miles Davis
"Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." United States Navy SEALs
"When you become lazy, it's disrespectful to those who believe in you." Unknown
"Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone." Joan Didion
"I know what it is like to be a coward. I will never go back there... It had a powerful effect on me and taught me some lessons for when I grew big enough to use them." Keith Richards, Life
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved, so much as to be understood." George Orwell
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self." Ernest Hemingway
"There's nothing more precious than time." Virgil Abloh
"I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex." John Baldessari
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Henry Miller
"Everything around you that you call life was made up of people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it...once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." Steve Jobs
"A man addicted to ideas need be intervened with starvation." Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic." Leonard Bernstein
"In order to grow...you must betray their expectations." Hayao Miyazaki
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." Albert Einstein
"Beautiful things don't ask for attention." James Thurber
"Sometimes, who you're doing business with is more important than the business you're doing." How To Make It In America
"You pay a price for living in a free society, and that price is tolerating things you don't necessarily like." Larry Flynt
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." Henry Rollins
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." Marcus Aurelius
"Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realise you know almost nothing." Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
"Always Strive and Prosper." A$AP Yams
"No one in the creative process, other than the maker, truly understands the process. And often, even the maker doesn't." Rick Rubin
"Be brave enough to be bad at something new." Unknown
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence." Charles Bukowski
"Don't let your mouth get you in to something your ass can't handle." Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself." Bill Murray
"Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back." Unknown
"You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found." Kid Cudi
"If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"In order to survive, you've gotta learn to live with regrets." Jay-Z
"So many people glorify and romanticise 'busy'. I do not. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details..." Joseph Cook
"Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower." Alexander den Heijer
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Proverb
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
"The strong guys are always gentle. Always. It's only the weak guys that come on strong." Keith Richards
"I think that one of these days, you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you." J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." Marvin Gaye
"I used to have horrible cars, because I never had any money, so I'd always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that." Chris Rock
"I realised that this is what I travelled for: to restore my faith in mankind." Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind." Jim Morrison
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." David Bowie
"The real power of a man is in the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him." Unknown
"Treat your employees like your family and they'll do great things for you." Office Christmas Party
"Mistakes are almost always of a scared nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary, rationalise them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." Salvador Dali
"There's no terror in the bang...only in the anticipation of it." Sir Alfred Hitchcock
"For having dissimulated their intentions throughout their whole life, they are condemned to stagger under the weight of capes which are wrapped around them, the outside of which shines like gold, while the inside is vulgar lead." The Hypocrites of the Sixth Trench, Dante's Divine Comedy
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw
"With every piece of advice, consider sometimes the opposite is equally true." Rick Rubin
"Your own family will talk shit about you when you're in the process of breaking all their generational curses. This ain't for the weak." Denzel Washington
"Touch things with consideration and they will be yours; you will own them... Learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you." David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size." Albert Einstein
"There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life." Kurt Cobain
"You ought to spent a little less time trying to impress people." Bender, The Breakfast Club
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop." Confucius
"An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind, and when we lie down on ours at night, no matter who's in our bed, we all sleep alone." Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
"I make things, and leave defining what that is to someone else." Virgil Abloh
"It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable." Socrates
"Only the brave show what they love." Wolfgang Tillmans
"Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited, that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul." Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun." Billy Joel
"Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them." Jack Nicholson
"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things." Henry Rollins
