George Lucas Quotes

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

Good luck has its storms.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that a lot of people just believe anything you tell them, and no matter what it is, they just go along with the program. They're perfectly happy to take their pill every day and do what they're told, and work and buy things, and work and buy things, and stay out of any complex emotional situations. And whatever the authorities tell them to do, they do, and whatever the authorities say is the truth, they believe is the truth.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

Real love is on the inside. It's somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.