Quotes About Inspiration

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable.

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock - has a value system where truth-telling and authenticity are oppositional with mass media, showbiz, and commerce.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.

All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I've worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life.

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Torah values are the ones that inform my life.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.