Quotes on Inspiration

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

One picture is worth a thousand words

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.