Inspiration Quotes

• Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

  

  Kansai Yamamoto
  • Ideas
  • Cultures
  • Traveling

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Conversation
  • Conflict
  • Director

• As the pace of innovation continues to increase within the startup community, we want to help customers discover these unique products and learn the inspiration behind them, we also know from talking to startups that bringing a new product to market successfully can be just as challenging as building it.

  

  Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World
  • Community
  • Innovation
  • Discover

• 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

• When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Learning
  • Focus
  • Athlete

• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Science
  • Inspiration
  • Essence

• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• 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

• The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Amazing
  • Museum
  • V&A

• I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Joy
  • Style
  • Marriage

• I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Half

• I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.

  

  David Droga
  • Meeting
  • Bank
  • Torturous

• I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

  

  Dev Anand
  • People
  • Dream
  • Drawing

• I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Artist
  • Inspiration
  • Tupac

• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Slavery

• I'm honored that everybody's inspired off my inspiration.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Inspiration

• Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Obstacles
  • Fantasy
  • Triumph

• Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Loquacity

• Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • Believe
  • Ignorance
  • Thanks

• The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

  

  James Martineau
  • Doubt
  • Honest
  • Scepticism

• Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Friendship
  • Security

• I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Inspiration
  • Guitar
  • Lyrics

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