Inspiration Quotes

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Actor

• Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Artist
  • Eye
  • Born

• Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own.

  

  Tatchakorn Yeerum
  • Styles
  • Jackie Chan
  • Bruce Lee

• The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Adventures
  • Odyssey

• Like the Cubists before them, the abstractionists felt a beautiful thing in perceiving how the medium can, of its own accord, carry one into the unknown, that is to the discovery of new structures. What an inspiration the medium is..

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Accord
  • Perceiving
  • Cubists

• I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. This is what the terrorist does in an attempt to impose his religion on the world.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Imposition

• I don't follow other fashion blogs, but I do follow other fashionistas on Instagram. Many of them are my friends; it's really cool: they can inspire me, and they're also my friends. I also look for inspiration in the street; there are so many fashionable women walking around.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Women
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Influence
  • Films

• I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Inspiration

• Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it's very therapeutic. But love in general - even when it's good - is always very inspiring.

  

  Jessica Lowndes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Heartbreak

• My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Inspiration
  • Win
  • Dresses

• It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Nature
  • Intellect
  • Fancy

• One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Results
  • Keys

• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  

  Bryan Adams
  • World
  • True
  • Sad

• The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • World
  • Travel
  • Inspire

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure
  • Intuition

• I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Inspiration
  • Rap

• That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Work
  • History
  • Mother

• I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Work
  • Creative
  • Field

• Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Inspiration
  • Families
  • Compass

• I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

  

  Dustin Lynch
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Poetic
  • Objection
  • Metre

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

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