Quotes About Inspiration

Can I tell you what I'm doing? I'm in search of a new story for myself. I need something to do that gets me excited in the morning and wears me out by bedtime.

She tried, leaning back and closing her eyes, to put in order what she had seen, heard, and what she had known before. She wanted to place her knowledge in paragraphs ( a good opening sentence? she thought), so that it would be easy to handle when she came to write it. But it did not fit in paragraphs and she could not see it, plain and informative, colourful but unimpassioned, on a page. There was no beginning, no middle, no end.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

A dancer isn't great because of their technique...they're great because of their passion.

Dancing is very like poetry.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery

This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader.

People yearn for purpose—for doing something that's important, that engages their full potential in a way that's meaningful beyond their personal bank accounts.

about the work they do.

you have to deal with yourself and your beliefs about life, about people, and about motivation and trust.

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.