I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.
People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.
The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end. I think it's really easy to forget that - I'd sooner play something musical than flash, and as I can't play anything flash, I try to be musical. Drums can set a mood, create an impression, as much as anything else.
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. . . . Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves
Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.
I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.