Walter Darby Bannard Quotes

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

Walter Darby Bannard

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• I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

  

  Flume
  • Inspiration
  • Routine

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Inspiration

• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Design

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Three

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Experience
  • Inspiration
  • Psychology

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

  

  Deep Roy
  • Positive
  • Inspiration

• I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Believe
  • Inspiration
  • Choose

• I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• Inspiration comes of working every day.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

  

  Christian de Portzamparc
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Project

• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Life
  • Time
  • Inspiration

• They got together and said they were going to do it for her. She was our inspiration, that's for sure.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Inspiration
  • Sure

• I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Player

• It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

  

  Ryan Newman
  • Experience
  • Singing
  • Acting

• When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

  

  Walter Darby Bannard
  • Inspiration
  • Imitation