Brendon Quotes & Sayings

I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far. — Brendon Urie

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world. — Brendon Burchard

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit. — Brendon Urie

I'm too precious to spend time on something that I'm not enjoying. — Brendon Urie

The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility. — Brendon Burchard

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy. — Brendon Urie

Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money. — Brendon Urie

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me. — Nicholas Brendon

It is time to remind ourselves that today's thoughts and actions become our legacy. When we forget this or lie to ourselves thinking our actions do not matter, we have permission to act as momentary buffoons. We let ourselves break, just this once, from our values. We cheat, just this once. We lie, just this once. We put off the hard task, just this once. We skip the workout, just this week. We take the drink, just one more. And soon we find that each of these little breaks in our will leads to another, and then to a lifetime of compromise and regret. Without vigilance, what is right and strong about the human spirit can be whittled away and broken forever. — Brendon Burchard

There was nothing like an extra helping of guilt to cool a man's blood.And it was guilt as much as the hot food and the glass of good wine that got Brian through the evening in the Grant kitchen. The size of it left little room for lust, considering.
There was Adelia Grant giving him a warm greeting as if he was welcome to swing in for dinner anytime he had the whim, and Travis getting out an extra plate himself-as if he waited on employees five days a week-and saying that there was plenty to go around as Brendon had other plans for dinner.
Before he knew it, he was sitting down, having food heaped in front of him and being asked how his day had been.And not in a way that expected a report.
He didn't know what to do about it. He liked these people, genuinely liked them. And there he was lusting after their daughter. An alley mutt after a registered purebred. — Nora Roberts

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. — Brendon Burchard

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. — Brendon Urie

Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves. Thus, too many people don't recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world. What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world? I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact. — Brendon Burchard

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys. — Brendon Urie

Too many have fled this moment for yesterday or tomorrow, dreaming of a time and place they would rather be. To what result? Those who are alive but who are in a sense living in a different time from now are ghosts. They are never fully seen or sensed by their loved ones; the bounty of the universe cannot find them to gift them; they are dissipated, absent from the roll call of Now. — Brendon Burchard

I've had to work on being a slow talker. — Nicholas Brendon

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun. — Brendon Urie

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy. — Brendon Urie

our difficulties need not be condemned but often seen as a rite of passage that opens the doors to greatness. — Brendon Burchard

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. — Nicholas Brendon

Declaring that we will master our fears is the first great leap toward freedom. Our vitality, growth, and destiny all demand that we can topple fear. As so much hangs in the balance, let us better understand what fear really is. Fear is the human motive of aversion. Fear doesn't help us commit to higher aims. It doesn't help us imagine greatness. Its sole aim is immediate release from threat, strain, or pain. It often becomes a by-all-means-necessary approach to controlling any given situation so that the body - but most often the ego - can feel safe and unchallenged. — Brendon Burchard

humanity is populated by the couch critics, the apathetic advisors who, from a detached perch of safety, believe that every whim that breezes over their small minds, and every one of their witless arguments, ought to carry the same weight as the hard-won wisdom of those who are actually in the fight, whose minds have been sharpened with real-world experience, whose legends are being forged by action. — Brendon Burchard

Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend. — Brendon Burchard

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all. — Brendon Urie

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight. — Brendon Urie

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically. — Brendon Urie

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud! — Brendon Urie

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message. — Brendon Urie

You can't really take a vinyl record player on a plane so you're not going to have the same experience, but if you walk yourself away and allow yourself to experience these different moments with music, you're so much richer in experience for that. That's what I believe. — Brendon Urie

My brain is just always going and going and going. — Nicholas Brendon

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them. — Brendon Burchard

I have my mother's hips ... I have an apple bottom. — Brendon Urie

Are you not more than your tiny worries about inconvenience? Isn't a better life worth some struggle? — Brendon Burchard

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen. — Brendon Burchard

If your guard is up, let it down. If you've constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don't forget who that wall also prevents from getting in - the good guys. — Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason. — Brendon Burchard

If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door ... and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty. — Shelly Laurenston

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing. — Brendon Urie

It is the calling of each man and woman who draws breath to have a grand vision for our lives, — Brendon Burchard

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery. — Brendon Small

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos. — Shelly Laurenston

If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people. — Brendon Urie

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write. — Brendon Urie

'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome. — Brendon Urie

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing. — Brendon Urie

I'd rather DIE than go to heaven. — Brendon Small

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.' — Brendon Urie

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that. — Brendon Urie

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!' — Brendon Urie

Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war. — Brendon Burchard

Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same. — Brendon Burchard

I had a stutter 'till ... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood. — Nicholas Brendon

Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress. — Brendon Burchard

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow. — Brendon Burchard

Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle. — Brendon Burchard

I like to remind people that creativity also isn't a spark; it's a slog. Every artist, inventor, designer, writer, or other creative in the world will talk about his work being an iterative experience. He'll start with one idea, shape it, move it, combine it, break it, begin anew, discover something within himself, see a new vision, go at it again, test it, share it, fix it, break it, hone it, hone it, hone it, hone it. This might sound like common sense, but it's not common practice, and that's why so many people are terribly uncreative - they're not willing to do the work required to create something that's beautiful, useful, desirable, celebrated. No masterpiece was shaped or written in a day. It's a long slog to get something right. This knowledge and willingness to iterate is what makes the world's most creative people so creative (and successful). — Brendon Burchard

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space. — Brendon Urie

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad. — Brendon Urie

Most people would feel guilty for destroying someone else's property. Yet they wreck the very temple their Creator gifted them. — Brendon Burchard

Also, tonight he reeks too much of beer and cloying cologne. This is a disappointment because I always assumed that a perfect creature such as Brendon would smell of spring rain and mountain bresses and other heavenly aromas. — Hannah Harrington

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say. — Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.' — Brendon Urie

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit. — Brendon Urie

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy! — Brendon Urie

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo. — Brendon Burchard

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert. — Brendon Burchard

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian — Brendon Ayanbadejo

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it. — Brendon Urie

We learn that the more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world. — Brendon Burchard

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar. — Brendon Urie

I guess a lot of people don't like talking. — Brendon Urie

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world. — Brendon Burchard

Yesterday you were riding on my shoulders," he murmured. "The house was full of noise. Clomping up and down the steps,doors slamming. Scattered toys. I don't know how many times I stepped on one of those damned little cars of Brady's/"
Turning back, he ran a hand over her hair. "I miss that.I miss all of you."
"Daddy." In one fluid movement she rose and slid her arms around him.
"It's the way it's supposed to work. Three of you off at college, Brendon moving around to get a handle on the busines of things.It's what he wants. And you, building your own.But..I miss the crowd of you."
"I promise to slam the door the very first chance I get."
"That might help."
"Sentimental softie.I love that about you."
"Lucky for me. — Nora Roberts

There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful. — Brendon Urie

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician. — Brendon Urie

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice? — Brendon Burchard

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?' — Brendon Burchard

Heartbreak is the best motivation. — Brendon Urie

Mitch glanced at Ralph and back at Brendon. "I think he's snoring."
"Or those are hunger growls."
"Bastard. — Shelly Laurenston

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about. — Brendon Urie

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour. — Brendon Urie

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life. — Brendon Burchard

I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right! — Brendon Urie

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song! — Brendon Urie

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at. — Nicholas Brendon

LIVE . LOVE . MATTER — Brendon Burchard

This is why we seek personal growth - to be free from the pain we cause ourselves, to make better choices, to feel better about who we are becoming, to act more confidently in social situations, and to unleash our full creativity and contributions into the world in order to make our highest difference. Gaining Personal Freedom in this sense is letting go of any self-doubt and self-loathing and allowing ourselves permission to be our unique, powerful, authentic selves. — Brendon Burchard

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac. — Brendon Urie

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad. — Brendon Urie

There was a kid that used to pick on me ... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.' — Brendon Urie

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way. — Brendon Urie

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go. — Shelly Laurenston

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do. — Brendon Urie

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way. — Nicholas Brendon

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun. — Brendon Urie

we must believe that we can bend reality to our own preferences, crafting the lives we desire through disciplined learning and initiative. We mustn't wait for permission or perfect timing any longer. Instead we must be courageous and self-reliant, moving forward at a moment's notice. We must see struggle as positive and necessary for our growth and ability to innovate and serve. And we must know all that we need is accessible in the Now - there is abundance in this world to be had, and everything we need to begin the great quest toward a free and fulfilling life is already within us. Should we live from these beliefs, then we shall reach levels of motivation and happiness undreamed of by the timid masses. — Brendon Burchard

Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn't life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve? — Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters. — Brendon Burchard

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work. — Brendon Burchard

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music. — Brendon Urie