Quotes About Inspiration

You can sit down and spend hours crafting some joke that you think is perfect, but a lot of the time, that's just a waste of time," Ruby explains.

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.

But you write what comes back to you, and then afterward it comes back to you all over again.

A story or novel is a kind of map because, like a map, it is not a world, but it evokes one (or at least one, for each reader.

The purpose of a story or poem, unlike that of a diary, is not to record our experience but to create a context for, and to lead the reader on, a journey.

ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown.

Nevertheless, in every piece we write, we contemplate a world; and as that world would not otherwise exist, we create it even as we discover it.

daydreaming?

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

To my daughter, without whose help this book would have been completed a long time back.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo Buonarroti stand together at the peak of Western culture.

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.

To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ROALD DAHL

Harvard Business Review that he said reminded him of me. The article—"Parables of Leadership" by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne—was composed of a series of ancient parables that focused on what the authors called "the unseen space of leadership.

The master nodded. "To hear the unheard," he said, "is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people's hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true needs of his citizens.

Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

mean a thing without the ring." To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. "Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune." Everyone expected us to dance our way to the championship

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. RUMI

His fearless attack on both ends of the court galvanized the team.

That's the essence of what it means to bring individuals together and connect them to something greater than themselves.

Cuando haces cosas desde el alma, sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI