Inspiration Quotes

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.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

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.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

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.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.