Inspiration Quotes

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

I think it is important to stay open to the world around you, so that you are constantly in a state of growth and evolution, which can only happen through inspiration.

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

I find inspiration in literally just about everything.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

How precious are the souls of men!

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidently done something brilliant in my life.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.

Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.'

People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.

Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

I have three kids. I was blessed with very supportive parents and some close friends, and the people closest to me are my inspiration.