Quotes About Inspiration

Where do they come from, thoughts? Like wrens, out of the sky. They arrive. Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

He smiled. 'They do not follow the

The capacity for leadership is one of the greatest gifts in the universe. But it brings with it a heavy burden. Never forget that.

fiction is a harsher, more demanding mistress than fact.

Yet he derives emotional strength merely from the knowledge of her existence.

It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Peter F. Drucker

The question is: how to be useful!" A great teacher can change your life in thirty seconds.

He was, in the end, the highest level of what a teacher can be: a role model of the very ideas he taught, a walking testament to his teachings in the tremendous lasting effect of his own life.

Zeichen eines großen Schriftstellers (Doderer): man nimmt von ihm auch praktische Ratschläge für den Alltag an

La inspiración del cansancio dice menos lo que hay que hacer que lo que hay que dejar. Cansancio: el ángel que toca los dedos del único rey que sueña mientras los otros reyes siguen durmiendo sin soñar. Cansancio sano; él solo, el descanso. (p. 79)

Vielleicht ist ein Schriftsteller in vielem weltfremd. Aber die menschliche Seele, für die ist seine manchmal kindliche Empfindlichkeit das große Auge" -Handke (Briefwechsel mit Unseld)

Il verbo adatto alla gioia: cominciare.

The Bible is closer to poetry than to a scientific manual, and the biblical writers' use of words is more like that of poets than of linguists or scientists.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old.

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.