Inspiration Quotes

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

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.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.