Quotes About Inspiration

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

New ideas capture and possess the mind that births them," said Robert Grudin in The Grace of Great Things. "They colonize it and renew its laws.

your mind, not in your hand. It should get you out from the covers and into your projects as fast as possible. And it should reveal its deeper wisdom reading

If you find it hard to describe your idea, don't fix your description. Fix your idea.

When your goal is to describe a vision for the future, information is not enough. People are up to their necks in information. What they need is a way to imagine life after the change, and compare it with life today. That's why it's called a vision and not a plan.

Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you'll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your mind will talk to your hands, and your hands will talk to your mind. This dialogue is called generative thinking, and it happens only when you're making something. It's the active ingredient of design.

It's almost impossible to reconcile creativity with cleanliness. The sculptor gets metal dust all over his studio. The writer must wade through a clutter of notes, books, and crumpled drafts to get to her desk. The rock musician must weave through a tangle of cables, black boxes, guitar stands, and song notes to sit down and create.

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Much of our lives involves the word 'no.' In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.' But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.

When we look, for example, at the Parthenon for the first time, we look at it already knowing that generations of architects chose precisely that style of building for the museums, town-halls, and banks of most of our major cities.