Quotes About Inspiration

But without warning, she leapt up with a gasp of excitement. "Guys," she said. "You need to see this.

and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.

He reached for a pencil and a blank sheet of paper from a stack beside Nina's typewriter, and began to fill it with scribbled notes and test keys.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Believe for big things, dream extravagantly, expect God to do miracles and let's make His name famous across the earth.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

Your thought will be as brilliant as the brilliancy you think into your thought, and how much brilliancy you will think into your thought will depend upon how high your realization of brilliancy happens to be at the time. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

Les livres sont pleins de livres.

Ce que des hommes sont capables d'imaginer, d'autres sauront le réaliser.

again. Nefertari

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.