Quotes About Inspiration

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.