Frank Gehry: Be Yourself

Frank Gehry is a Pritzker Prize-winning Architect based in Los Angeles, Califonia. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture. His best known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Dancing House in Prague; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

Frank Gehry:

I tell kids and I tell my students that they should not look over their shoulders, they should be themselves and find their own way. They will slowly realize they will become the expert in their work and nobody else is expert in their work and that they will have... and so don't matter what somebody else said. Maybe they won't like it, at least you are still in control and you're the expert in your work. And over time if it's any good it will find it's way into the bigger picture. And it may be Great and not find it's way into the bigger picture, like Van Rohe didn't when he was alive. Who's to say what's good and what's bad in the end so for once only in life. I think that's where you go. You find your own thing, you relate to it, it's your Strength, and you'll have a pretty Good Life. Don't try to look over your shoulder and try and be what the next person is, because you can't be what they are anyway. So, that's what I tell my kids, and I do that myself.

Oprah Winfrey & Steve Jobs Speeches at Stanford

Oprah Winfrey:
Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about, it's what you feel, it is a part of your life force, it is the thing that gives you juice.

And always take a stand for yourself, your values, you're defined by what you stand for.

Honor your calling, don't worry about how Successful you will be. Don't worry about it, Focus on how significant you can be in service and the Success will take care of itself.

I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later I saw the same reporter and she said to me, "You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself."
And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner Wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your Power to your Passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and Success will come to you.

You have to live for the present. You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because Life is now.

Steve Jobs:
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose Faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your Life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you Believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.


Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the Courage to follow your Heart and Intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

A Motivational video created by a 13 year old

QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:

Ernest Hemingway: Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Dale Carnegie: People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing.

Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

G. K. Chesterton: I owe my success to having  listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Arthur C. Clarke: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Confucius: Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Thomas J. Watson: Encouragement is a necessary part of supervison.

Aristole: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

George S. Patton: Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment everyday.

St. Clement of Alexandra: If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.