Quotes About Inspiration

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

There are certain days I will get home, and something will pop up on my Twitter, and I will just cry about it. I get so overwhelmed that I get to do what I do.

I was so overwhelmed by the amazing response I had from thousands of women saying they felt beautiful in my first collection, I wanted to design more clothes they could love themselves in.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

I never really feel overwhelmed; I feel energized by what goes on in our day.

I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.

I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.

If you've got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to get yourself out of their hair occasionally.

their main role is that of a catalyst, not a director. They make it possible for the magic to happen.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

You may be able to kick people to make them active, but not to make them creative, inventive, and thoughtful.

It takes ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton. If you have a hard time making out the lyrics, you're not alone—even Son House (who, along with Howlin' Wolf, was influenced by Patton)

the writing process behind The Tilted World.

Bob Dylan's 2001 tribute to Charlie Patton.

turn the story into a novel, and we agreed because the characters we'd created for that short story were still hanging around our brains. They had more to say.

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.