Quotes About Inspiration

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Lead by example. Women often wait for permission instead of acting, and I try to encourage bold action.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.

I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

I love everything Katy Perry does.

'Last Friday Night'... I just heard a song, and I just liked Katy Perry ever since.

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

I think she's the foundation of everything I've done. I think, definitely, my mother's fear of failure helps make me more resilient and helps make me persevere.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.