Quotes About Inspiration

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

They love Jesus because he is what they are not and cannot ever be. They try to drink his strength and simplicity and spontaneous beauty into themselves. But they do not succeed. They cannot

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

flow - a state that some artists experience in their creative moments and that many other people achieve when enthralled by a film, a book, or a crossword puzzle; interruptions are not welcome in any of these situations.

The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done

but the chapters we wrote first were probably easier than others

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul. I reread it recently and again found it inspiring.

Quisiera que mi determinación adquiriera determinaciones legendarias.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

La perspectiva de leer a filósofos griegos de la antigüedad rodeado del paisaje pedregoso y soleado donde habían florecido sus ideas me pareció genial.

I wonder if I have a problem. I definitely have a tendency to seek spiritual inspiration from super-rational thinkers rather than from rabbis and priests and theologians.

The meaning of life is not something we look for, it is something we create.

See the stars at night. They seem so small to your eyes, but their light shines for millions of miles. Be like those stars— small in your own eyes, yet radiant to all.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth

Poetry, as Allen Ginsberg reminded his friends, is news that stays news.