Quotes on Inspiration

What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you is greater than the power that's in the world.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.