Inspiration Quotes - page 2

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. (Jim Rohn)

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Giacomo Puccini

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Maurice Gibb

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Naomi Klein

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Rudolf Nureyev

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

Steven Johnson

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Bernie Siegel

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. (Giorgio Vasari)

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Barry Mann

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

Graeme Murphy

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Gavin Rossdale

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Harry Shearer

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Kevin Eubanks

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

Tom Glazer

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

Geert Wilders

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. (Britney Spears)

I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

Charlotte Brontë

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

Umberto Eco

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Eyvind Johnson

We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.

Michelle Obama

Previous
1
2 (Current)
3
4
...
44
Next