Rick Rubin Quotes

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

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• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Great
  • Achievement

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Real
  • Achievement
  • London

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Singing

• The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Proud

• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Growth
  • Achievement

• Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

• New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. ''

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Power

• I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.

  

  Bianca Walkden
  • Life
  • Help
  • Athlete

• I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Achievement

• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Freedom
  • Sun
  • Achievement

• The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

  

  Anna Garlin Spencer
  • Women
  • Effort
  • Failure

• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Achievement

• Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Road
  • Achievement

• Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Achievement

• Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

  

  John Raese
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Fashion
  • Exercise

• When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Able

• When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Fear
  • Respect

• If I could read it, I could play it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Play
  • Read
  • If I Could

• I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Achievement
  • Limitation