Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
~By Harry Seidler ~
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
~By Meg Cabot ~
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
~By Britney Spears ~
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 ~
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 ~
I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.
~By Donnie Iris ~
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.
~By Julian Lennon ~
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
~By Boris Vian ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
~By Burt Rutan ~
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.
~By Beyonce Knowles ~
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 ~
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
~By Hugh MacDiarmid ~
Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
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 ~
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
~By Buddy Rich ~
The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
~By Kristi Yamaguchi ~
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
~By Ernest Newman ~
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
~By Willie Dixon ~
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
~By Robin Gibb ~
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
~By John L. Phillips ~
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
~By Jon Stewart ~
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
The very air in which you live is an inspiration.
~By William Henry Moody ~
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
~By Sean Lennon ~
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 ~
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
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 ~
Inspiration is the key to everything.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.
~By Thomas Carper ~
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
~By Alicia Keys ~
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
~By Harry Shearer ~
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
~By Cheryl Crawford ~
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
~By Barry Mann ~
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 ~
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
~By Naomi Klein ~
My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
~By Fred Durst ~
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
~By Lance Secretan ~
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
~By Ben Nicholas ~
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
~By Karl Urban ~
Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.
~By Alfonso G. Robles ~
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 ~
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
~By George Lucas ~
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 is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
~By Giacomo Puccini ~
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~By Brendan Francis ~
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
~By John Huston ~
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 ~
I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.
~By Picabo Street ~
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 ~
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
~By Aaron Copland ~
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 ~
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
~By Vissarion Belinsky ~
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
~By Elena Kagan ~
After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
~By Franz Liszt ~
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
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.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
~By Ken Hill ~
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
~By James Connolly ~
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
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.
~By Neil Diamond ~
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
~By James Larkin ~
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
~By Larry Niven ~
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 ~
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
~By Rudolf Nureyev ~
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
~By Marc Newson ~
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 ~
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
~By Beck ~
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.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
~By Georg Brandes ~
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