Quotes About Inspiration

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Everywhere the poems open.

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

Each book became for me the life I lacked, brought new adventure, gave me something to look forward to, gave new dimension to this parched and sterile world I live I.

The outlines of birds and beasts and sailing ships could still be seen in the apothecary's attic in Grantham, along with the drawings of men and mathematical symbols. But the boy who who had made them was gone. He had taken his notebook with him: his secret world of star names and tawny lions and golden ink made from quicksilver.

The people who love us do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. They release the best in us; they shoulder us through the rough times in life; they stretch us beyond the confines of our own experiences to wider visions, to truer vistas.

Mom wrote to God like a pen pal would, so straightforward and friendly. Her mind ricocheted from one thought to another, as mine still does.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

establish the vision; sell your dream, make it clear and alive; trust your people; don't interfere with their work; and give feedback at critical points.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing goals through other people.

I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

Rodin was on the brink of a grand passion. But unlike Bernhardt's, his lover would become the greatest inspiration of his career. Her name was Camille Claudel, and if she was not pretty in a conventional way, she was as beautiful and alive as quicksilver. She was also an extraordinarily gifted sculptor in her own right.

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.