Quotes About Inspiration

society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. Therein

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Walter Isaacson

Those who have never faced disease and suffering have no need of producing beauty

Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.

Journeys are fundamentally the same: they begin in the mind, with the image or the story that inspires them in the first place, and finish in the world.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

We will be one step down from the Creator, she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. Imagining a world and then making it.

Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).

I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

I found out a lot about my father as he regaled my wife. He'd learned how to be a potter in a small village in Bolivia. There, working on a kick-wheel in a shack the size of an outhouse, he started thinking about the few novels he'd read.

I could imagine a life in a world maybe a hundred years from now where my ideas and some man's might be the same.

Jesus was doing cartwheels across the lawn in the porch light.

dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her. (p. 9)

The moment you find yourself working alone with your own ego, stop working, for the emotions of your sensed body are making you aware of it and your work will not be enduring without the Light of your Soul in it. Physical emotions immediately smother spiritual inspirations.