Top 100 Rubin's Quotes
#1. It was only then that I realized that poor Ms. Rubin's blouse and skirt were completely covered in my blood.
R.J. Palacio
#3. Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
Stephen Rodrick
#4. From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
Stephen Rodrick
#5. Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
Marty Rubin
#6. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.
Marty Rubin
#7. Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.
Marty Rubin
#8. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.
Marty Rubin
#9. You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.
Marty Rubin
#10. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.
Marty Rubin
#11. When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks.
Marty Rubin
#12. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
Gretchen Rubin
#13. Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates.
Marty Rubin
#15. What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.
Marty Rubin
#16. We are important to ourselves and to those who love us. That's enough importance for anyone.
Marty Rubin
#17. We cling to love's illusions because they're real.
Marty Rubin
#18. It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
Marty Rubin
#19. What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love.
Marty Rubin
#20. Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.
Gretchen Rubin
#21. Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.
Marty Rubin
#22. It's hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.
Marty Rubin
#23. Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.
Marty Rubin
#24. Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please ... It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
Gretchen Rubin
#25. It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to.
Scott Avett
#26. We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live.
Marty Rubin
#27. There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Rick Rubin
#28. The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.
Marty Rubin
#30. It's about "Moments," not Milestones.
Ted Rubin
#31. You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.
Marty Rubin
#32. Love hurts because we think that's what love is.
Marty Rubin
#33. I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.
Gretchen Rubin
#34. It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.
Marty Rubin
#35. The writer's job is to free language from the prison of ideas.
Marty Rubin
#36. Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.
Marty Rubin
#37. It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value.
Gretchen Rubin
#38. Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.
Marty Rubin
#39. If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
Marty Rubin
#40. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.
Gretchen Rubin
#41. Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
Marty Rubin
#42. An artist's work is one long conversation with life.
Marty Rubin
#43. When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.
Marty Rubin
#44. Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
Marty Rubin
#45. The craving for recognition is every artist's Achilles heel.
Marty Rubin
#46. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.
Marty Rubin
#47. If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.
Marty Rubin
#48. The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.
Marty Rubin
#49. There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
Rick Rubin
#50. After someone's death, how strange to see the value drain away from his or her possessions; useful objects such as clothes, or dish towels, or personal papers become little more than trash.
Gretchen Rubin
#51. When people talk to themselves they should listen more. That's how writers are born.
Marty Rubin
#52. It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.
Gretchen Rubin
#53. Music's power is like love's power: one can feel but never understand it.
Marty Rubin
#54. To a truly remarkable extent, we're more likely to do something if it's convenient, and less likely if it's not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.
Gretchen Rubin
#55. It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.
Gretchen Rubin
#56. Where there is a strong need to believe it's incredible what people will believe.
Marty Rubin
#57. You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.
Gretchen Rubin
#58. What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.
Gretchen Rubin
#59. Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics!
Marty Rubin
#60. It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
Marty Rubin
#61. A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.
Marty Rubin
#62. The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.
Marty Rubin
#63. There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.
Gretchen Rubin
#64. Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
Gretchen Rubin
#65. To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job.
Marty Rubin
#66. The poet's task is to give every echo a voice.
Marty Rubin
#67. Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.
Gretchen Rubin
#68. I feel unsettled at any time when I'm not writing. And I mean that. There's a sense of peace, and of being in the right place, that I experience only when I'm writing.
Gretchen Rubin
#69. In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.
Robert Rubin
#70. It's a sick philosophy that begrudges people their illusions.
Marty Rubin
#71. The most terrifying thing is one's own imagination.
Marty Rubin
#73. Love is the desire for another's happiness.
Marty Rubin
#74. The ultimate aim of reading or writing poetry is to enrich one's life experience.
Marty Rubin
#76. It's not easy to change things. Things fight back.
Marty Rubin
#77. Our perception of what's real is always changing and that never changes.
Marty Rubin
#78. It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.
Marty Rubin
#79. What is technology in the end but man's futile effort to create the world in his own image?
Marty Rubin
#80. When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something.
Marty Rubin
#81. Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.
Marty Rubin
#82. I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
Rick Rubin
#83. In the Strategy of Pairing, I couple two activities, one that I need or want to do, and one that I don't particularly want to do, to get myself to accomplish them both. It's not a reward, it's not a treat, it's just a pairing.
Gretchen Rubin
#84. People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.
Marty Rubin
#85. We humans are part of nature and whatever creative talents we might have come from nature and are part of nature's gift to us.
Marty Rubin
#86. If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#88. I've only written one decent poem in my life called "Lizard up My Leg": A lizard up my leg gave me a fright Not because he did, but 'cause he might. Okay, not a great poem, but it's honest and also it's short so I can remember it.
Danny Rubin
#89. An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.
Marty Rubin
#90. Art's aim is life, a deeper connection with life.
Marty Rubin
#91. Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done.
Marty Rubin
#92. To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.
Marty Rubin
#93. Getting control of stuff makes people feel like they have more control over their lives - maybe irrationally, but it's one of these psychological truths.
Gretchen Rubin
#95. Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation ... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.
Gretchen Rubin
#96. A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.
Gretchen Rubin
#97. [S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
Gretchen Rubin
#98. It's only the poor who can't get away with murder.
Marty Rubin
#99. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.
Dayna S. Rubin
#100. Be alive to the moment, that's all you can do.
Marty Rubin
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