Quotes About Inspiration

David Adams Richards

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. —Albert Einstein

Have you envisioned wild success about anything lately?

The ability to leverage that thinking with good collection devices that are always at hand is key to increased productivity.

Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many.

A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is but drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world. —From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730

If you're waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won't have many. What's

And if it's just you, attempting to come up with a good idea before defining your purpose, creating a vision, and collecting lots of initial bad ideas is likely to give you a case of creative constipation. The

capturing ideas and input will become more and more critical as your life and work become more sophisticated. As you proceed in your career, for instance, you'll probably notice that your best ideas about work will not come to you at work.

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling

Una visión sin una tarea no es sino un sueño; una tarea sin una misión no es sino un trabajo penoso. La conjunción de una visión y una tarea es la esperanza del mundo. —INSCRIPCIÓN EN UNA IGLESIA DE SUSSEX, INGLATERRA, ALREDEDOR DE 1730.

She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, Where did you come from? How did you get here? And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.

It needn't look like any particular thing at all. How could we imagine that we could make a world as perfect and as lovely as the world that God has made? All we can do is to do our best. Paint and draw. Create your own beautiful imperfect world.

Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?

She bookmarked my texts, my notes, my scribblings. She walked through my thoughts, waded through my dreams.

Why should I write what they told me to write just because they told me to write it?

Dreaming big is the key to happiness. Dreaming big is energizing. Dreaming big is fun. Can you remember a time in your life when you used to dream big? When you had things you wanted to accomplish and you weren't afraid to talk about them? Do you remember what it felt like to not have to be so "responsible"?

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.  

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.

The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.