Inspiration Quotes

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

Don't torture yourself... that's my job

If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.