Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

You never know what motivates you.

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I inspire myself.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

I fight because I want to not because I have to.

I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

Folks should find what really inspires them; they should always pursue what they want to do.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.