Quotes About Inspiration

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)

Sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a destiny.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

Ideas are where you find them

You find your lead, you build your structure, you are now free to write.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education is soul crafting.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.