Quotes About Inspiration

He swam backward through time, lap after lap, until he was six years old and watching Jack LaLanne tow a thousand-pound boat through San Francisco Bay, until that feeling returned -- that deep boy certainty: Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough. Scott wasn't old, it turned out. He wasn't finished. He had just given up.

Follow the words, not the person.

Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life.

Actually a solution & a path to personal freedom. My own life's experience w/ both Dharma practice & punk rock inspired me to try to bridge the gap between the two. I've tried to help point out the similarities, while also acknowledging the differences, & to show those of my generation who are interested that they can practice meditation & find there the freedom we have been seeking in our rebellion against the system.

Human beings perform best in an environment of unconditional support. That happens when someone looks at you and sees your full capacity, potential, and greatness. That person knows that you can do it, sees that you can do it, and holds you to that.

Believing in yourself is the last, not the first stage, in the evolution of success. The first stage is someone believes in you. The second stage is you believe in someone else. The final stage is you believe in you.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

you can be a hero, too. For England.

But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

You can fix anything but a blank page.

You can't edit a blank page

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.