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“Genius doesn’t work on an assembly line basis. . . . You can’t simply say, ‘Today I will be brilliant.'”

“A little suffering is good for the soul.”

“How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.”

“Conquest is easy. Control is not.”

“Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. The body dies.”

~Captain Kirk

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

~Trent Reznor

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

~Henry Rollins

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

~Pistol Pete Maravich

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

~Jerry West the orginal Mr. Clutch

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

Individual honors come with team success.

~Gilbert Arenas