Quotes About Inspiration

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

La musica doveva avere il volto di una donna da seddure. Chiudevo gli occhi per immaginarla, per dare colore ai suoi capelli e ai suoi occhi, ma compresi che finché dal mio sax fossero usciti soltanto ragli d' asino, quella ragazza non sarebbe mai esistita.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.

Life without meaning is empty, but meaning is something you must give your own life. It is not for anyone else to tell you what your life is about. Take time to explore and define your life's purpose.

Puede ser que las velas sean como la gente buena, que van dejando algo lindo por donde pasan.

Lo que diferencia a los géneros literarios unos de otros, es la necesidad de la vida que les ha dado origen. No se escribe ciertamente por necesidades literarias, sino por necesidad que la vida tiene de expresarse.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.

Whether you're starting a business, managing a team, or running an entire company, trusting your instincts can be essential in bringing a vision or idea to life. I now understand that trusting yourself is only half the story. To be effective as a leader, you need a reservoir of trust to draw from. And once you use it all up, it can take years and years to replenish.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

I was learning from the best.

Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.

Having fun is easy when you have a library cards!

No beach today!" D.W. announced the next morning. "I had a dream about Buster," said Arthur. "Why don't you write him a postcard?" Mother suggested. "Why don't we all write postcards?" said Father. "But what do we write about?" said D.W. "We haven't done anything yet!

Great art picks up where nature ends.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a work to be made, and that work may well utilize much raw material we would prefer to do without.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.