Quotes About Inspiration

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious me. And that truly has happened.

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

It might sound naive, but for me, you know, for me, the important part is kind of making process. So I'm not super result oriented, and I just, like, kind of getting lost in the process of making something.

I feel every project that I have done in my life, which is acting oriented, has been something that I believed in.