Quotes about "Inspiration & Motivation"

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. ”

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ”

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field. ”

I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to. ”

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies. ”

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ”

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions. ”

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba. ”

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ”

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed. ”