Quotes About Inspiration

Freedom is our ability to make things up just for the sake of being able to do so.

When and how did we come to believe that creativity was supposed to be painful

he had a way of standing and looking into the distance like he really believed in something

We want to be part of a new generation of givers.

Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead—without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.

Cuando escribimos, sentimos que el mundo se mueve, es flexible y está lleno de posibilidades. Ciertamente no está congelado

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

From the minute I saw you with the match in your hand I thought I could tell you anything on my mind. You'd be my model, but for words.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.

life is too short to work on the uninspiring. Being

active imagination," which allowed him—and countless others—to express unconscious shadow material as a painted image or as various other creative products (sculpture, dance, poetry, music, etc.), so that it could be effectively dealt with psychologically.

But one thing above all gave Bollingen its special quality: silence. Jung was a great one for silence, just as he could on occasion be a torrential talker. The two compensated each other. It was a vital necessity for him to sink himself in profound introversion; this was the fountainhead of helpful and vivifying powers. Creative ideas took shape in the inner and outer stillness.82

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.

Children always turn to the light.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

Inspiration is a magical thing, a productivity multiplier, a motivator. But it won't wait for you. Inspiration is a now thing. If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it to work.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

And like Elvis, they are relying on the one commodity that endures after the voice is no longer quite the same, the moves have grown rusty, and the inspiration no longer flows quite as readily. That is the audience's deep, surprising love for the music they made in the past.