Quotes About Inspiration

I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.

I am out to prove that there are no obstacles for the disabled.

All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them to be more creative. That's the case with VR.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.