Inspiration Quotes

The whole point of working and practicing your whole life is so that you're ready when that moment arrives; when the inspiration arrives, you are ready to be at the disposal of inspiration.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

I'll never forget my wedding day... they threw vitamin pills

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

The devil is in the detail.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do