Quotes About Inspiration

I had to be steadfast in my Christian beliefs, seeking strength from them.

One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an admirable thing - from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today - some kids coming up - people who are out to change the world.

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and even three days when I can hardly write a word. I used to try for 1000 words a day; now I am high-fiving myself after 500.

I am the greatest Angela Bassett fan. She is such a fine human being and so steady.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.

I steal from every movie ever made.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I got a lot of motivation from my character of people-watching. And if they do something that annoys me, I steal it and do it because I know it annoys other people. If it annoys me, it's going to annoy you.

I looked at Randy White... I looked at Klecko. I looked at Gino Marchetti. I looked at a lot of players. Bob Lilly. There are players I looked at over the years when I was a young player and tried to steal a little bit from their game and fit it into my game. And Joe Klecko was someone I thought was a bear to deal with.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Don't let people steal your confidence and tell you what you can't do because I'm living proof that you can overcome all the obstacles.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.