Quotes About Inspiration

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

What I really miss about Mumbai's Durga Puja is the positivity and the synergy.

I was surprised to see the kind of synergy we made with Lady Gaga and our colors.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

I bought this Oxygen midi synth from a flea market in Boston for $10. And then I found a cord in my house that fit it, and so I just started using that to do synth stuff in GarageBand.

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.

The 1982 Asian Games champion M.D. Valsamma's coach gave a statement in the media that if Valsamma had some 15 days training on a synthetic track, she would beat me. I was very interested in the challenge. I kept that paper cutting under my bed and used to read it often.

My favorite player is Carmelo; that's just a guy I've been rocking with since he was at Syracuse. I've always been a big fan of Melo.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.