Quotes About Inspiration

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

No outer teaching will affect human progress as much as our common interest in learning from one another. It is now a time for us to draw from the deep pool of our collective creative energy to craft a future to which we can all belong.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

I don't like to write. But I love having written.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Empathy is the engine that drives design.

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Smith Wigglesworth exhorted, "Read it through; write it down; pray it in; work it out; pass it on. The Word of God changes a man until he becomes an Epistle of God.

At one point," remembers Peter Rummell, "Celebration was going to be modeled on a factory town, like Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is a tourist destination where people pay to watch other people make chocolate. Ultimately imately, Rummell rememberers, "No one could figure out what could be made or produced in our new town that would draw these tourists.

The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Hunt had thought of the name while watching his children playing with one of the hot novelties of the period, the Wham-O company's high-bouncing Super Ball.

Our purpose is not to be the answer, but rather the question. To make each day a little brighter and leave the world a better place than we found it. That is the true path, which we all must choose to follow, regardless of whether it leads us beneath the shadow of a heel or the tire of a car. Our purpose is to walk that path with our heads held high, hope in our hearts, and belief that our roles, no matter how small, are integral to the grand design.

Michael McCloskey

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.