What was more brutal than loss of hope?
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.
If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.
You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.
I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.
. . . most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.
People always talk about what they do the night before, but to be totally honest what you do the night before isn't going to make a huge difference in how you look. Maybe eating a giant burger and being bloated would make a difference, but other than that it's the lead-up. For me it's always about trying to consistently maintain a fit and body-conscious eating schedule so three days before I'm not like, Oh my God, I have a bathing suit shoot I have to do.
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.