Quotes About Inspiration

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a dancer. I studied ballet.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.