Quotes About Inspiration

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

All great authors are seers.

I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.