Quotes About Inspiration

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.

For me, it's about eating a bunch of fruit and exercising, which opens up the creativity, makes it easier to give ideas a chance and bubble to the surface. I'm no angel, but it helps me, as does hiking, heading to the ocean to catch some waves - for me, sweating it out is definitely good for the creative process.

When I recorded 'Waves' I was in England, and I was there for months.

I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.

As far as inspiration is concerned, I only have one person - Madhubala. She was beautiful like a wax doll. And I just love her eye movement and those pure emotions which strike your heart.

With 'The Karate Kid' especially, there's been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that 'Wax on, wax off' would become part of the American lexicon?

I still remember the time when I visited the wax museum in London. While there were statues of many sports personalities, including that of Sachin Tendulkar, I didn't see a wax figure of any hockey player. I was a little disappointed at that time, and I hoped that one day, at least in India, someone would make a wax statue of a hockey player.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way - enrich people's lives.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.