Inspiration Quotes

I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

The results of your life reflect the standards you've set.

Peak performers replace depletion with inspiration on a daily basis.

It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

Live with no time-out.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Start before you’re ready.

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

I find my inspiration in myself.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Only through struggle, have I found rest.

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

The road to the heart is the ear

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.