Quotes About Inspiration

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Turn your scars into stars.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.