Quotes About Inspiration

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

I went to middle school and high school, and my drama teacher, Ms. Cooper, basically nurtured me. It was always a part of my life, and my parents allowed it to be.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

Pamela Eells has been the most amazing leader. She's such a nurturing person, and that is what makes a woman such a great leader: she's nurturing but also gets stuff done.

I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.

I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.

I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

I'd love to open up sessions at a Boys and Girls Club or something where kids can learn nutrition and how to exercise in a fun way. Especially for young guys. I'd love to be an inspiration.

I was a science nerd. I have two science degrees. I enjoyed the sciences, nutrition, so I always modeled part time, thinking it would end.

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like 'Nuts in May' and 'Educating Rita.' And I never get tired of watching Larry David and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

Doc Rivers kind of told me I'd be a head coach one day. I just kind of looked at him like he was nuts.

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.