His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
~By George Gershwin ~
I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.
~By Lee Ritenour ~
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
~By Major Taylor ~
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.
~By Julian Lennon ~
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~By Brendan Francis ~
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
~By Meg Cabot ~
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
~By E. Franklin Frazier ~
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
~By Ang Lee ~
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
~By Cheryl Crawford ~
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
~By Thomas Keller ~
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
~By Josefa Iloilo ~
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
~By Grete Waitz ~
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
~By Seth Low ~
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
~By Robert Bresson ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
~By Italo Calvino ~
My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
~By Nomar Garciaparra ~
The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
~By Kristi Yamaguchi ~
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
~By Shelby Foote ~
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
~By James Larkin ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
~By Robin Gibb ~
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
~By Bettie Page ~
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
~By Harry Shearer ~
In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
~By Harry Seidler ~
I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.
~By Thia Megia ~
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
~By John Michael Hayes ~
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
~By Ned Rorem ~
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
~By Roma Downey ~
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
~By Alberto Moravia ~
Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.
~By Anil Kapoor ~
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
~By Birch Bayh ~
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.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
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.
~By Don DeLillo ~
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
~By Ikue Mori ~
I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.
~By David Talbot ~
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
~By Boris Vallejo ~
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
~By Charles de Lint ~
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
Inspiration comes of working every day.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
~By Alex Noble ~
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
~By Barry Mann ~
When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!
~By Judy Collins ~
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
~By Judy Collins ~
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.
~By Peter King ~
What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
~By Joe Grant ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
~By Lactantius ~
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
~By Giorgio Vasari ~
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.
~By Socrates ~
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
~By Cole Porter ~
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
~By Van Morrison ~
I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
~By John Updike ~
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.
~By Herschel Walker ~
Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
~By Charles Ives ~
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.
~By Thomas Carper ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~By Sidney Altman ~
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
~By Leon Uris ~
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.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
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