Inspiration Quotations | Page 5

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately. It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.

The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

It costs a lot to build bad products

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.