Quotes About Inspiration

If the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.

We should imitate bees," Seneca wrote, "and we should keep in separate compartments whatever we have collected from our diverse reading, for things conserved separately keep better. Then, diligently applying all the resources of our native talent, we should mingle all the various nectars we have tasted, and then turn them into a single sweet substance, in such a way that, even if it is apparent where it originated, it appears quite different from what it was in its original state.

Joy through suffering: this phrase (extracted from one of Beethoven's letters, where it actually referred to an uncomfortable coach journey) became the central motto of the Beethoven cult [..].

because Beethoven did not know where it was going to end up. That, of course, is the point of sketching.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Berg paid his way with stories.

Story of Success)

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Allowing customers a creative role can then build both confidence and energy. It can help initiate the right innovation efforts and keep them on the right track.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: "My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape.... The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.