Quotes About Inspiration

Shine bright, be yourself.

Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

Let's give the historians something to write about

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Be black, shine, aim high.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.