Inspiration Quotes

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

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

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

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

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

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?

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.