Issey Miyake Quote

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

Ralph Fiennes

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

Ralph Fiennes

• Self-discovery
• Learning

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

Ernest Hemingway

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

Richard Serra

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

• People

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

Charlize Theron

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

• Mind
• Thinking

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

• Time

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Kid Rock

• Politics

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Isaac Mizrahi

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

Gustav Mahler

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Liza Minnelli

• Mind
• Listening

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John Keats

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

• Desire

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

Dan Millman

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

Pedro Almodovar

This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.

Julianne Moore

• Morality