Inspiration Quotes

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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

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.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.