Quotes About Inspiration

No sobrestimes el mundo mientras te subestimas a ti mismo. Eres mejor de lo que crees. Y no estás solo.

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

Timothy Ferriss

I start watching the Food Network for 1–2 hours a night to decompress from my start-up. Half-asleep one evening, I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.

Los dos somos grandes seguidores de Peter Drucker y de su libro El ejecutivo eficaz (Círculo de lectores, 1997), así como de la obra de Alain de Botton (véase capítulo con el mismo título) titulada Cómo cambiar tu vida con Proust (RBA,

I think you should try to slay dragons. I don't care how big the opponent is. We read about and admire the people who did things that were basically considered to be impossible. That's what makes the world a better place to live.

Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game.

The Beginning Is "heart work," not "head work" "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 remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that very evening." Susan Cain

the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. If it wasn't a crazy idea, it's not a breakthrough; it's an incremental improvement.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were, from death to renewed life." Peter Blois in Theology of the Reformers

St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you will be doing the impossible.

visible, to keep me on track. When

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

Take a deep breath. Don't hold back. Go ahead; fill your lungs and feel them expand.

Timothy S. Lane

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy, in words and deeds, to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. And the moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.

to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the co-creator of another.