Quotes on Inspiration

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.

I believe that inspiration is one of the most powerful forces in life. In career and in relationships, it's worth searching for the path that inspires you. Pursuing such a path often entails risk - it may involve making a big change in what you're doing - but the career risks we regret most are the ones we don't take.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.