Quotes About Inspiration

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

The picture of Jesus as a humble servant is not meant to be a beautiful portrait to admire on the wall; it is meant to be a model that inspires us to act with humility.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

Nooit meer zwijgen, Altijd schrijven. Nooit meer sprakeloos, BEGIN

Eigenlijk zou je twee levens moeten hebben: een om te leven en een om te schrijven. Die twee storen elkaar.

Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes! Remember why the good Lord made your eyes! So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - Only be sure always to call it please 'research'." [ Lobachevsky ]

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.