Quotes About Inspiration

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

Kim Peek, for example, who was the basis for Rain Man, was severely mentally handicapped and could not get dressed by himself. Yet he had memorized twelve thousand books and could give a lightning-quick answer to almost any factual question.

Faria Kazi heard them and thought of

Talent – it doesn't just achieve results, it attracts other gifted people and helps create an environment that people want to be in.

Hay que dejar que los talentos decidan la orientación del trabajo y no al revés, decía.

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

Gli argini della memoria» aveva detto Joseph. Che espressione misteriosa, come se la memoria fosse un fiume. Ed era così che Tushi vedeva Joseph adesso: in riva a un fiume, con i pantaloni arrotolati sopra le caviglie e le lunghe gambe che sguazzavano nell'acqua mentre si chinava a setacciare il limo, la sabbia e il fango che erano la sua storia. Cosa avrebbe dragato prima dell'alba? Qualcosa che l'avrebbe aiutato? Tushi lo sperava, ma non ne era sicura. 

David Lebovitz

The actual inspirations for Lady Chanel were Samuel L. Jackson and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." As

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

Bible consists of sixty-six books written by some forty different authors over a period of about 1,500 years. The authors came from every imaginable background—"kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen and scholars. It was written on at least three different continents in three different languages—Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—yet, there is a thread of continuity from Genesis to Revelation.

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

He had finished and collected the three years of drafts [of Infinite Jest] , and finally sat down and typed the whole thing. Wallace didn't really type; he input the giant thing twice, with one finger. "But a really fast finger.

Remember that nothing that's any good works by itself, just to please you. You got to make the damn thing work. . . . Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Good Gad, Weaver. That look upon your face is one of inspiration. I hardly know you any longer.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

This generation can only reach this generation.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

David Livingstone

It was felt that nothing could more palpably represent the man, and this quotation has consequently been inscribed upon the tablet erected to his memory near his grave in Westminster Abbey. It was noticed some time after selecting it that Livingstone wrote these words exactly one year before his death, which, as we shall see, took place on the 1st May, 1873.]

1st April, 1872.—Read Young's 'Search after Livingstone;' thankful for many kind words about me. He writes like a gentleman.