Inspiration Quotes

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.