Quotes About Inspiration

It would be great to see more Asian women playing cricket at every level.

It sounds sycophantic, but I don't think I have met anyone in cricket who gives so much to a team as Marcus Trescothick does to England.

I wasn't aware of women's cricket until I was 10. We grew up following the men's game.

After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.

I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say 'I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket.'

I heard 'Angel' because my children are huge Sarah McLachlan fans. When I heard it for the first time I just cried my eyes out.

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

I love what I do, and to be able to see a show that is inspired by my life's work is exciting because it exposes people to what a crisis manager does.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

Rahul is my greatest critic; I look up to him. At 40, I'm fit, and that's because of Rahul. If I'm neglecting my health, he's the one to catch hold of me.

My dad's best friend was a food writer and critic, so I was very lucky to eat in beautiful Michelin-starred restaurants growing up.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

I hear all the critics, man. I hear them saying 'He's done.' I hear them saying 'He can't.' I hear all that. That keeps me going.

When I come home and have a new song I've written, she gives me an honest critique. If my wife likes it, I know I have something.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

One thing Kid Cudi did that I always wanted to do was the crop top, but I need to get in shape if I want to do that.