Ethan Hawke // "Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice."
Charles Bukowski // "If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it... If you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it... If it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it... Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness...don't do it. When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was."
Zadie Smith // "I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human...I only love to be so."
Mark Twain // "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Frank Lloyd Wright // "A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should...be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."
Tom Hardy // "You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you’re like most lonely…that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream." ——————————————— ***Just found out that the photographer of this photo, Sarah Dunn (@studiobaby) was in a terrible accident a few days ago. Please check her page for the link to her GoFundMe page. Would be wonderful if we could all help in some small way. Wishing her a quick and full recovery. 🖤
Marco Pierre White // "I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress... To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people."
Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."
Andrei Tarkovsky // "I think I'd like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn...how to spend time with oneself. That doesn't mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn't grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view."
Toni Morrison // "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
John Lee Hooker // "I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune."
Viggo Mortensen // "I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."