No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
Be really whole and all things will come to you.
- Lao-Tzu
The painting has a life of its own. I just try to make it come through.
- Jackson Pollock
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
- Eileen Caddy
I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, because that's how I grew up.
Eddie Vedder
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
- Franz Schubert
I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
Goethe
Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it.
Vincent Van Gogh
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about…Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
Jalai Ud-Din Rumi
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
- Piet Mondrian
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Minor White
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
- Stendahl
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Frank Capra
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
- Lucretius
Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.
- Claudia Black
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
The Work of the Chariot
If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
- Louise Nevelson
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
- Brenda Upland
Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
- Mike Phillips
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
The thing always happens that you really believe in.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Biography
Jake Carpenter grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. When it came time to go to high school, Jake moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to attend the drama program at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, also known as NOCCA. Jake then moved to Los Angeles and graduated with a degree in psychology from UCLA.
Jake began his professional acting career while at UCLA. Jake is one of the stars of the famous movie, ALIVE. ALIVE is the true survival story of a rugby team whose plane crashes into the Andes Mountains. The movie also stars Ethan Hawke and John Malkovich. Jake has also acted in projects with Renee Zellweger, Dean Cain and Tim Roth. He has also performed for a season on the L.A. Law television series and guest-starred in several other popular television shows.
Jake loves teaching acting and has a passion for guiding his fellow actors to grow artistically and professionally.