Virgil Abloh Quotes

I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Virgil Abloh

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Anger

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Want
  • Government

• I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Think
  • Achievement

• It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

  

  Livy
  • Up

• To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Simple
  • Fall

• For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Strong

• My life is an open book.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Life
  • Book

• There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Social change comes through people.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People

• I always work with a coach. That's just a personal thing that I like to do. During interviews, you'll hear more of my accent, and I'll stress the wrong words.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Work
  • Words
  • Stress

• That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • People
  • Work

• Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.

  

  Chelsea Lankes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • People
  • Up
  • Dad

• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Artist

• I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

  

  Virgil Abloh
  • Inspired
  • Traveling