Quotes About Inspiration

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'

Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

There are many things that you just observe while watching Steyn. Just seeing him bowl is a great learning in itself.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.