Quotes About Inspiration

Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmna?amy j? jak moje warzywa czy jab?onki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

Music is my higher power

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] as source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking.