Quotes About Inspiration

Your life is a minor rhapsody for flute and violin.

He had borrowed the colours of his life from that spectrum of desire which he called God.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Ideas are changed, not by will, but by other ideas

Jesus expressed the same thought when he told us not to hide our light under a bushel, but to let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified." I cannot believe that it brings any glory to God when his children go around with hangdog expressions, being miserable, afraid to lift up their heads and "be somebody.

Henry J. Kaiser, the industrialist considered the father of American shipbuilding, attributed much of his success in business to the constructive, positive use of Creative Imagination with these words: "You can imagine your future.

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

Schubert is said to have told a friend that his own creative process consisted in "remembering a melody" that neither he nor anyone else had ever thought of before.

Creative Imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. For imagination sets the goal "picture" that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of "will," as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

Henri Fehr, the famous Swiss scientist, said that practically all his good ideas came to him when he was not actively engaged in work on a problem, and that most of the discoveries of his contemporaries were made when they were away from their workbench, so to speak.

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

He succeeded in replacing the negative belief with a positive belief that he had a message of extreme importance that he alone could deliver, no matter what he looked like.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

Fashion helps people...Fashion...makes us better people. The right clothes can make you feel great. They can transform you...

ìIf one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome."