Quotes About Inspiration

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, "deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it were, saying, 'All right, you idiot, let me fix this.

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it's utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.