Quotes About Inspiration

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Whena person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they're always there.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of the power of a thing . . . I romanticize something when I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the known the dignity of the unknown, and the finite the appearance of the infinite.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.