Quotes About Inspiration

Ich hatte keinen Lebensplan. Die Begeisterung für ein Leben als Abenteurer hatte mich früh schon beflügelt, sie trieb mich immer weiter an, ließ mich dafür kämpfen, selbstbestimmt leben zu dürfen.

Jaký je to asi pocit, zachovávat i ve stavu naprostého zoufalství sv?j postoj, udržovat si d?vÄ›ru svých lidí a dodávat jim nadÄ›ji na pokraji smrti?

Anyone wanting to reach the summit must lift his spirits to its heights

Art is the accomplice of love.

The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant who passed that way. The branches are broken at a height that other men cannot reach.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it.

She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books.

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would begin anew.

No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God)

If you're going to make something up about yourself, make it good

A veces me ha pasado que me entusiasmo con lo que leo y siento el deseo de vivirlo inmediatamente. Hace años, por ejemplo, cuando terminé El gran Gatsby, sentí impulsos de ser orgulloso y apasionado y de estar a la altura de mis ilusiones. Me sentía yo también elegante y un poco desesperado pero capaz de todo. Es como un clima, una atmósfera, o mejor un sentimiento, y esa impresión dura lo que duran los ecos de una música, siempre ha sido algo fugaz.

Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.

Semco, we abolish manuals, procedures, and policies so that people are free to improvise, to soar, and to collect the moments of happiness that constitute genuine success.

Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others.

I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

If we ever meet again, Hazel-rah,' said Dandelion, as he took cover in the grass verge, 'we ought to have the makings of the best story ever.' 'And you'll be the chap to tell it,' said Hazel.

It was warm praise and cheered him. What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes

if I can't write poetry, at least perhaps I can try to think and feel like a poet.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.