Quotes About Inspiration

This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

The teacher must ever walk warily between the necessity of inducing those conformities which in every generation reaffirm our rebellious humanity, and of allowing for the free play of the creative spirit.

Online motivation and inspiration with little information or authentic and authoritative direction seems to be on the same level as the addiction to online porn.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.

Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream." Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. "A small act," he says quietly, "that reshaped the future." He looks at Ash. "The past doesn't always have to write the future.

You are beautiful. You are strong. You are enough. You don't need to be anything more. Or less.

sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

I sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

Her goal in life is to help others cope with mental adversity, to show that one does not have to be irreparably destroyed by horrific actions of the past.

One time I thought I might try to write my own. About a lady detective. One should follow one's heart, you know, because before you realize it, your time on this earth is done and you're at death's door.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

I once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too. We take the essence of the initial snapshot and the essence of an imagined snapshot and smash them together to create an entirely new one.

Follow your envy — it shows you what you want.

Maybe because from the creative point of view there is nothing so dangerous as security.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go, unattached to the way it needs to look.

Relax your expectations, in fact, purposely lower them so low that you feel excitedly naughty about showing up to perform your work with reckless abandon. If that's hard, open to doing it that way just 5%. Deliberately perform below your skill-level to get started and to see what ideas fall out of a relaxed approach. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you're a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

The stars are beautiful—diamonds, twinkles, something you can wish upon. The space in between the stars is the sublime—cold, black, and infinite, something that inspires awe and fear.

My imagination is a burden sometimes.