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Quotes About Inspiration

In my new business, this is one of the things we work actively with CEOs to see: how one idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can't even imagine. But
~ Jonathan Raymond
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And she would say, Today you believe in God? And he would say, Today I believe in love.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What if I never stop inventing?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
For Nicole, my idea of beauty
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And instead of singing in the shower I would write out the lyrics of my favorite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The burning bush must not be consumed.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Wings of a half finished book across his chest.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal experience of my book would be like listening to music.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I think this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in matters that are interesting, not only melancholy. When writing, we have second chances
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Lvov is a city like New York City in America. New York City, in truth, was designed on the model of Lvov.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer