Eric Maisel Quotes

Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

Eric Maisel

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Achieve

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Language
  • Achieve

• I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Dreams

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Military

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Think
  • Dreams

• All artists are crazy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Crazy
  • Artists

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Writing
  • High

• Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

  

  Bohumil Hrabal
  • Lost
  • Moving
  • Dreams

• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Person
  • Influence

• I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Happens
  • Charming
  • Endings

• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Performer
  • Secrecy
  • Assistants

• Orangutans look straight into your soul.

  

  Willie Smits
  • Soul

• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Artists