Ohne Hoch- und Tiefphasen, ohne Schweiß und Tränen und ohne Freude oder Verzweiflung kann keine Kunst entstehen.

Auch wenn es nicht so scheint: Jeder ist kreativ. Denn die Existenz allein bringt die Neugier mit sich und diese ist der Ausgangspunkt jeder Idee.

Wenn man sich vorstellt, eine Idee käme nicht aus dem eigenen Inneren, sondern von außen auf einen zugeflogen, fühlt man sich geradezu dazu auserwählt, sie umzusetzen.

Man sollte sich und seiner Kreativität stets Aufgaben stellen. So wird sie "trainiert" und gestärkt.

Es hilft nicht, sich über Schwierigkeiten kreativer Berufe zu beschweren, man hat sich schließlich freiwillig darauf eingelassen. Stattdessen sollte man seine Inspiration pflegen und sie nicht mit seinem Gejammer verscheuchen.

"Frustration unterbricht den Prozess nicht. Sie ist der Prozess"

Perfektion ist der Feind der Kreativität. Sie hält einen auf und nimmt die Freude am künstlerischen Prozess. Stattdessen sollte man sich darum bemühen, "so gut wie möglich" zu arbeiten.

Angst ist eine primitive Emotion, die wir nicht ausschalten können, daher sollten wir uns nicht von ihr leiten lassen. Man kann sie nur akzeptieren und (mit ihr) weiterarbeiten.

Originalität ist eine Utopie. Man kann nichts erschaffen, was man nicht mindestens in Teilen einmal wahrgenommen hat. Was zählt ist Authentizität und Individualität.

Der künstlerische Berufsweg sollte niemals an finanziellen Problemen scheitern. Keine Institution sollte einen dazu führen, Unsummen an Krediten aufzunehmen, um eine künstlerische Ausbildung abschließen zu können.

Wer verbissen versucht, Kreativität und Karriere zu vereinen, wird in den meisten Fällen scheitern. Die Kunst sollte in erster Linie Genuss und ein Mittel zur Verarbeitung von Emotionen sein.

Befindet man sich an einem Punkt, an dem es unmöglich scheint, der Leidenschaft zu folgen, sollte man sich stattdessen auf die Neugier einlassen. Die Leidenschaft verlangt Kraft, die nicht immer zur Verfügung steht. Neugier hingegen zeigt einem neue Wege.

The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

A great relationship doesnt happen because of the love you had in the beginning but how well you continue building love until the end.

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You'll be surprised at the results.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.

It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That’s a sentence that deserves a re-read.

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.