Quotes About Inspiration

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I used to be a summer camp counselor when I was younger.

And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to me, especially in a culture that's forgotten the value of beauty. It's a primary source or inspiration, I guess, when so much of what goes on around you is only about money and big swinging dick capitalism. It's important for blokes to be able to do beautiful stuff, impractical stuff, that adds to life. That's an early life-lesson from surfing.

From the beginning, Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal. Its first operating system (MS-DOS) was actually a clone of CP/M, another operating system.* Microsoft Windows was a rip-off of the Apple Macintosh operating system; Microsoft Word and Excel were copies of Wordperfect and Lotus 1-2-3, respectively.

A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him,

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And

Why read poetry if you don't want to fall in love?

had yet to influence

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.

I'll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: 'There is no way. The way is made by walking.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.

When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. —PAULA POUNDSTONE

As Tony Robbins would say, "The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

Borrow liberally, combine uniquely, and create your own bespoke blueprint.

And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.

So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity.

I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.