Quotes About Inspiration

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

The point isn't to be the hero and solve things; the point of the leader in a complex world is to enable and unleash as many heroes and as many solutions as possible.

The opportunity to gain Willpower makes a great motivation for a story, especially your more bizarre ones.

If we took Jesus' famous teachings away and just focused on the way He lived, He would still be radical.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

I had done my best, and it wasn't good enough. I doubted, I pined, I prayed, and I was still me. I was a gay woman, inspired by Jesus in ways beyond my ability to communicate, who failed to live up to the expectations of all that a Christian was supposed to agree with, believe in, and reenact. I was certain I could no longer be the standard-bearer of an institutionalized religion, but I couldn't escape the fact that my faith seeped into my art.

I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire. Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

I was sad. I was heartbroken. I was scared. But it was only through adversity that I found my saving graces. Sometimes they came from unexpected sources—a song, a challenge, or a friend. It was my responsibility to make the most of them, apply them to my life, act on them, and rise to the occasion.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

you have to see the world to change it.

Sometimes," he said, "when I'm in a social pickle, I like to ask myself, WWJAD?" I raised an eyebrow, and he explained. "What Would Jane Austen Do?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Let your anger light a fire that the world will never extinguish.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

No one sees the world like you do, Emma. Creating art is about sharing your own personal vision with the world. Taking something no one else can see and bringing it to life.

Katherine believed that when the work was going well things just fell into place, as if by magic. It was the artist's job to open herself up, let herself be guided to whatever the next step might be.

And how that lady Suz was all wrong: art is not all about chaos, about taking things apart. True art, Emma will tell them, is about finding a way to make what's broken whole.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.