Quotes About Inspiration

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

Being that I started so young and super independent from the ground up, talking to people in the same predicament that I once was in is humbling. It makes you appreciative of the come-up and how far I have come. It is inspiring.

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

I prefer writing originals.

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

Often, players at clubs I have been at have asked me for prayers or advice. I prefer to show them things rather than to say things; with my actions, not my words.