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"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."
Sigmund Freud
"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."
Sigmund Freud
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."
Paulo Coelho
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
Elon Musk
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
Napoleon Hill
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."
Napoleon Hill
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas Edison
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
John Lennon
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Samuel Johnson
"You want to be a writer? Start writing You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now."
Matthew McConaughey
"Good ideas are free – or at least they should be."
Matthew McConaughey
"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
Vincent Van Gogh
"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"
Salvador Dali
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
Salvador Dali
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
Salvador Dali
"I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt ver"
Johnny Depp