Personal Urgency Quotes

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.