Explore Quotes on Inspiration

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outocme, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal...is to live the questions.

Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.