Inspiration Quotes

I like the inspiration of the first take.

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

Sometimes you just close your eyes and jump... you don't think too long or maybe you just won't. Sometimes you just follow your heart, don't analyze too long, or maybe it might just be gone.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong by the blood that covers the Innocent One.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.

My dads music was a great inspiration to me.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.