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Quotes About Inspiration

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
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 turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how. After
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Julia hated to see nervous children. She wanted to go to her, give her an inspirational talk—explain that life changes, and what is weak becomes strong, and what is a dream becomes a reality that requires a new dream.
~ 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. 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
Waarom? Omdat god de plagiaris liefheeft. Niet voor niets staat geschreven: 'En God schiep de mens naar Zijn beeld; naar het beeld van God schiep Hij hem.' God is de eerste aller plagiarissen. [...] Dus als wij plagiaat plegen, scheppen wij in feite 'naar het beeld van' en dragen we bij aan de vervolmaking van de schepping.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is possible again." It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The question of eating animals hits chords that resonate deeply with our sense of self—our memories, desires, and values. Those resonances are potentially controversial, potentially threatening, potentially inspiring, but always filled with meaning.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Good writers are pleasing, very good writers make you feel and think, great writers make you change.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Het eten van dieren raakt ons in het diepste van ons wezen, in onze herinneringen, onze verlangens en onze waarden. Wat het bij ons losmaakt is potentieel controversieel, potentieel bedreigend, potentieel inspirerend, maar altijd betekenisvol.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things;
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.
~ Jonathan Swift
by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.
~ Jonathan Waterman
God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
It's music that can only come from particular instruments, broken in particular ways, and yielded with particular humility. I also believe it brings God glory in a way that is completely unique on earth or in the heavens. And that's a thought that keeps me going, too.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
I see music as fluid architecture.
~ Joni Mitchell
I used to be a Christian, but I decided to follow the teachings of Jesus instead.
~ Joni Rodgers
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
~ Jorge Borges
Si recordamos que Moisés descubrió a Dios en una zarza insignificante que ardía en medio del desierto, si tenemos en cuenta que Buda alcanzó la iluminación durmiendo debajo de una higuera, si no olvidamos que Jesucristo nació en un pesebre… podemos darnos cuenta de la poca importancia que tiene el dónde empiezas en comparación con la grandeza del hacia dónde vas.
~ Jorge Bucay
Osjedam da energija za pisanje izvire iz moje nutrine, nema boljega primjera. Uvijek sam razmišljala da, iako su slova ista, njihovo je zna?enje druk?ije ako potje?u iz duše.
~ Jorge Bucay
Motivar no consiste en conseguir que el otro haga lo que yo quiero, sino en lograr que el otro quiera hacer lo que yo quiero".
~ Jorge Bucay