Inspiration Quotes

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul.

I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Every passion has its destiny.

The needs of the times will teach you what to do.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

The universe is always sending you inspiration, you just have to listen and allow.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.

Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

You become what you behold.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

Grace flows through wounds.