Quotes About Inspiration

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Her eyes look heavy, but her smile is light enough to raise an entire army off their feet.

J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport

Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.

Please don't fart about the art.

Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.

Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Of course it is easier to sit the young child in front of the television than it is to read to him or to encourage him to read for himself thereby opening a whole new world of imagination. But these children are our creative adults of the future. They will become our scientists, our artists, our inventors - and the teacher of the following generation. Surely they deserve the opportunity to develop their creative imagination at as early an age as possible.

There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.

Inner creativity is always there - it just has to be released from its prison.