Quotes About Inspiration

the first edition of this book, then called POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things, I started with these lines: "This is the book I always wanted to write, except I didn't know it." Today I do know it, so I simply say, "This is the book I always wanted to write.

The psychologist Alice Isen and her colleagues have shown that being happy broadens the thought processes and facilitates creative thinking.

attractive things make people feel good, which in turn makes them think more creatively. How does that make something easier to use? Simple, by making it easier for people to find solutions to the problems they encounter.

the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written

mead for my men!

you get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures...

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for.

In fact, my experiences as I was writing the 3:16 book weren't that different from writing computer books, although I wasn't using integral signs as much.

Product development produces the recipes for products, not the products themselves.

As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated for another try.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Emerson's quote, "What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Make big thinking friends and meet them regularly for lunch or dinner to trade ideas, voice opinions, and share dreams and aspirations.

If you ever have the chance to hear his "Think Big" talk, grab the opportunity.

Pitam se: Što još ne vidim? Što je još mogu?e? ponekad su odgovori inovativne ideje. To nije nužno neki tajni proces, ali jest proces i zahtijeva koncentraciju.

The first task in building a compelling story world is to create hope.

In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages.

How many novels have moved you to tears, rage, and a resolution to live differently?

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help