Quotes About Inspiration

The very best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself

Forme uma concepção clara do que busca conquistar, mas não deixe o que você busca realizar interferir com o ato de fazer com perfeição o que você tem de fazer agora. Seu conceito do que você quer é um guia para suas energias, e uma inspiração para levá-lo a aplicá-las ao máximo em seu trabalho presente. Viva pelo futuro agora.

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision

Jesus, The Man and His Work Published from a Lecture by Wallace D. Wattles Cincinnati, Ohio (November 11, 1905)

This limitless reservoir of wisdom and power is open to you; you can draw upon it as you will, according to your needs. You can make yourself what you desire to be; you can do what you wish to do; you can have what you want.

On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves.

The courage of his imagination is the temporal and spiritual measurement of every artist.

The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses.

He accepted the belief that the driving force behind the authentic artist is his self-isolation and even his self-immolation.

They know when they face the white paper for their real work that their unconscious mind is a lost continent which may give them flashes of wit and grossness and metaphorical beauty

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .

The writers I admired and still admire were not carpenters, but more like sculptors. Their art was and is a real probing of real and troubling human confusions.

The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of people and actions . . .

How to write a story, though ignorant or baffled. You take something that is important to you, something you have brooded about. You try to see it as clearly as you can, and to fix it in a transferable equivalent. All you want in the finished print is the clean statement of the lens, which is yourself, on the subject that has been absorbing your attention. Sure, it's autobiography. Sure, it's fiction. Either way, if you have done it right, it's true.

She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.