Quotes About Inspiration

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

If I have the chance to be an important part for my colleagues or someone they can look at and say, 'He's doing good; he's motivated,' this is an objective I want to reach.

That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, 'How did I live without this?'

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I'm going to go into every game trying to win. That's always going to be my objective. I'm going to go into anything I do trying to win. I'm going to instill that in everybody I come across.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.

For me, motivation is like obligation.

The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.

When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.