Quotes About Inspiration

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art.I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seem'd to have known a better day.

Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.

Aller werdekeit ein füegerinne daz sît ir zewâre, frowe Mâze. ein sælig man, der iuwer lêre hât!

No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an dliving there, were so often extraordinary and dramatic that they cried out for description.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

In this place you can become the person you want to be. Anything can be gotten from books. In books there are rooms of gold, in books there is jadelike beauty.

I burned incense, swept the earth, and waited for a poem to come... Then I laughed, and climbed the mountain, leaning on my staff. How I'd love to be a master of the blue sky's art: see how many sprigs of snow-white clouds he's brushed in so far today

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking along, through whichever door opens. I have been on a journey and this journey has never stopped. When the journey is acknowledged and sustained by those I work with, they are a source of inspiration, energy and encouragement. They are the reasons I kept walking, and will keep walking, as long as my knees hold out.

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded...

You don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

In the more relaxed state, neural networks open up and connections of all kinds form more freely.

the best corporate learning environments have some common elements. Bringing in outsiders to teach and inspire; encouraging insiders to teach each other; putting employees' work on the walls to share ideas, especially on work in progress—all invite questioning and feedback from others and encourage greater collaboration

The designer George Lois, who claims some of his best ideas have come while meandering through the Metropolitan Museum, says, "Museums are the custodians of epiphanies.")