Daniel Burrus Quotes

Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

Daniel Burrus

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• Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• 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

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Day
  • Like
  • Florida

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Taste
  • Cultural
  • Zones

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • House
  • Sun
  • Reaction

• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Meetings

• I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Want
  • Hungry

• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Will
  • Over
  • Ghost

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Scenes

• In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Work
  • Money

• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Air
  • Movies
  • Actors

• I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • Parents

• Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

  

  Daniel Burrus
  • Trying
  • Support
  • Journey