Quotes About Inspiration

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever