Quotes About Inspiration

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

inspiring their foot soldiers to commit acts of violence. It takes only one powerful dark soul to wreak havoc in the world by inspiring spiritual intolerance, nationalism, or loathing in the minds of the vulnerable.

may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece." Vittoria

Am invatat sa nu-mi inchid niciodata mintea in fata unei idei penru simplul motiv ca pare miraculoasa.

Every drill instructor knows that leadership is something to be cultivated and that virtually every recruit has the potential.

It's very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down and write and find that place where you're just involved and enjoying the imaginary place you've discovered. All the other "problems" with writing are just puzzles, and they can be interesting to try to crack, even when it's frustrating.

Goal setting is the strongest force for human motivation. Set a goal and make it come true.

You wanna grow up to be a trivia question? she asked, challenging me. Or do you wanna make a difference in the world?

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

You will look forward to getting up each day just to help another soul, another part of your Self.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given

A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.

speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

You want to be a hero," he repeated. "You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create

For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.