James Victore Quotes

#1. Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

James Victore

#2. But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone - they have a potential to gain so much more.

James Victore

#3. Go have fun and make money

James Victore

#4. If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Joshua Foer

#5. When we think of our work as a gift, it radically changes what we create.

James Victore

#6. You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

James Victore

#7. We are born with magic inside of us

James Victore

#8. We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

James Victore

#9. In the particular lies the universal.

James Victore

#10. No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness

James Victore

#11. I am everyone I have ever loved.

James Victore

#12. This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.

Edmund S. Phelps

#13. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.

James Victore

#14. I taught the older grades - five through eight. They required my full attention and kept my mind busy.

Vannetta Chapman

#15. Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being

James Victore

#16. When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Norman Finkelstein

#17. The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

James Victore

#18. If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

James Victore

#19. If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Liang Chow

#20. Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Tennessee Williams

#21. The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Jim Rohn

#22. It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

James Victore

#23. Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

James Victore

#24. Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

James Victore

#25. Put your weird in your work!

James Victore

#26. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

James Victore

#27. By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#28. Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van

#29. The first rule of business is FUN

James Victore

#30. There's just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We're not entitled to all the truth.

Jami Attenberg