Mike Hockney Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Are you a revolutionary? Don’t sit on the fence. Be a man of action, someone who makes a difference. The Last Bling King

2. If most of us want good closing images, we have to change society. If we must watch our life over and over again forever on the day we die then we need our own revolution, starting from within. Or we’ll be in hell. Hell is yourself. Or rather hell is watching your shit life being replayed for eternity. Everyone should place the movie of their life on an LCD screen built into the headstone of their grave, and set on an infinite loop. Then anyone who stops by the grave to look at your movie will soon know whether you’ve gone to heaven or hell. The Last Bling King

3. If you don’t have the highest ambitions, you will never achieve anything great. If you’re realistic rather than idealistic, you will inevitably accept failure because failure is always the realistic outcome of any undertaking. Samuel Beckett said, Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. That’s idealistic, not realistic. The realist would just give up. Illuminism is about aiming for the highest heights. If you prefer the plains, the lows, the average, the ordinary, the banal, the bland, the uncommitted, the neutral, the self-interested, the realistic, Illuminism is not for you. Richard Dawkins: The Pope of Unreason

4. If you had to watch your life over and over again forever, it would be hell if your life were shit. I absolutely get it. If we don’t live lives we can be proud of, we’re fucked The Last Bling King

5. Opening and closing images frame our whole lives, like birth and death. But I’m really talking about the dynamic phase of our lives when we’re making our way in the world. The opening image is when we’re eighteen, say, and our closing image is when we’re about fifty. We all have thirty-two years to get our closing image right, and hardly anyone succeeds. When we’re on our deathbed, will we be proud of our closing image, or tormented by it? That’s the challenge of the movie of our life. That’s when we know if we’re going to heaven or hell. That’s the Final Judgment. The Last Bling King

6. To really get life, to really go for it, you must have nothing to lose. Only then can you gain everything. The Last Bling King

7. We live in the Movie Age. We should make a list of the movies we’ve loved and hated, the ones that bored us, inspired us, made us laugh or cry, sick or elated. Then we need to compare those movies with our own life. Would anyone else want to watch the movie of our life? Would we want to watch it ourselves? Maybe we’d be the only person in the cinema even though admission was free. Maybe even we would walk out. And if it was that bad, shouldn’t we be doing something about it? When Hollywood movies really stink, the directors want their names removed from the credits. Alan Smithee is the name that gets used instead. How many of us are in Alan Smithee movies? If we could avoid using our real name, we would. The Last Bling King

8. We’re all extras in others’ movies. Why not be the stars? The Last Bling King