Quotes About Inspiration

In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was 11, I knew what I wanted to do. My father really couldn't afford to spend $12 for a guitar for me, but he did. It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid's gift.

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that.

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.