Rick Rubin // "I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better."
Lauren Bacall // "I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that."
Dwight Eisenhower // "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Charles Lindbergh // "In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity...their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world."
Elizabeth Taylor // James Dean
Michel Foucault // You see that's why I really work like a dog, and I worked like a dog all my life. I'm not interested in the academic status of what I am doing because my problem is my own transformation. That's the reason...when people say: "Well, you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else," my answer is: "Well, do you think I have worked like that all those years to say the same thing and not be changed?"
Julio Cortazar // "All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."
Isabella Rossellini // "It seems to me that I'm a tourist to life...I'm an observer of it."
Jean-Paul Belmondo // "To be a champion, you have to sacrifice everything."
Francis Bacon // "The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness...it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure..."
Jane Fonda // "Everyone should know the feeling of overcoming...and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy."
Rudolf Nureyev // "Before a performance, everything I do...is a way of becoming acquainted with the inevitable fact that I must go out there...that I have to dance. You have to assume that frightening responsibility. Really, what it boils down to is that we are paid for our fear."