Inspiration Quotes

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

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.

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.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

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.

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

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

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.

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

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.