Quotes on Inspiration

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

My television is the tabernacle.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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.