Inspiration Quotes

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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.

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 look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

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.