Quotes About Inspiration

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education must precede motivation.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place