Quotes About Inspiration

The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.

The chief enemy of creativity at work is not time. It is fear.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

So many people are miserable. They need someone to entertain them. Why can't it be me?

I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.

Using a double bass drum in rock came about as a way to emulate what John Bonham of Led Zeppelin managed to do with one bass drum. His foot was so fast that it took most drummers two kick drums and both feet to mimic it.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.

In 1981 the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, inspired by Mendeleyev's example, came up with a classification table for subatomic particles, which he named the eightfold way.

people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

St. Patrick of Ireland Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ below me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. — St. Patrick of Ireland

that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

We're all children of Kubrick, aren't we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn't done?

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Spiritual self-affirmation occurs in every moment in which man lives creatively in the various spheres of meaning.

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, in the wilderness because you cannot see me, my voice because my voice is spirit." It was as if I had thought these words.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.