If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don’t easily conform to what the masses are doing, you’re looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I found with my students they don’t necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what’s relevant to what’s he doing you see.

If you know what you’re doing, you’re doing dull stuff.

I’ve done 12 in one night, you know what I mean – loads of them… Really, in the long run, it’s a safe pill and it ain’t doing you no harm. I don’t see the problem.

On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.

You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that’s how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn’t work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don’t think too much. I don’t go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.

Can’t you read? The score demands ‘con amore,’ and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

Wendy! Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him. Nothing slips by you does it. Loki asked.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it’s going to work out. Because even if other people don’t like what you’re doing, you’re happy because you did what you believed in.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.

I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about. I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.

Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don’t eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?

I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

It’s always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don’t like your work anymore, but you can’t try to please people, because then you’re just going to be doing – you’ll never live it down, y’know it’ll always be dogging you around – you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.

If you’re up there [on stage] thinking about what you’re doing, you’re just not there and it’s not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those – which is a normal thing to do. You’re in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you’re doing together.