Quotes About Inspiration

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I've done it all - I'm good. Now, it's about setting an example for others to follow. I can't just talk it - I have to live it.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

Sports and education, I think they overlap.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on.

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.

Evergreen songs are not made overnight. They are cultivated and nurtured and born out of creative conflicts.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

When I was overseas, I was listening to 'Shot for Me' from 'Take Care.'

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.