Quotes About Inspiration

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

If you can dream it, you can write it. After all, a dream is just a dream until you bring it to fruition.

Leaders create leaders. They arm their subordinates with intent. And then step out of the way.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,' to paraphrase the Greek statesman Pericles, 'but what is woven into the lives of others.' Your legacy is that which you teach.

La visión sin acción es un sueño. La acción sin visión es una pesadilla.

Los líderes crean líderes. Dotan de intención a sus subordinados. Y se quitan de en medio.

Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,' said the Greek statesman Pericles, 'but what is woven into the lives of others.' Your legacy is that which you teach.

Successful leaders look beyond their own field to discover new approaches, learn best practices and push the margins. Then they pass on what they have learned.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

I have no doubt that honestto-goodness, God-sent angels do indeed exist and participate in our lives, probably far more than we realize .

in sum, he had been satisfied reading Homer's Odyssey instead of setting off to create his own?

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

Amos describes transmitting God's message as a kind of knee-jerk reaction: "If a lion roars, who isn't afraid? And if God speaks, who doesn't prophesy?" What could have been the lived reality behind such assertions?

The greatest danger we face from this machine age is that we will become engrossed with mechanical gadgets and forget we have hearts. Man cannot live by bread alone nor by machinery alone. The heart must be nurtured. For this reason the prophet and the poet are more important to a nation than the engineer or the inventor. Longfellow and Whittier have meant more to us than Edison or Ford. Burns's songs have meant more to Scotland than Watts's steam engine.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Likewise a poet.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

Music without passion or soul is just a collection of notes, right?

God bless the Reference Librarians

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.