Inspiration Quotes

• Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Write
  • Read
  • Affect

• Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Night
  • Inspiration
  • Homework

• How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Poison

• None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Invention
  • Accident
  • Perspiration

• You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Thinking
  • Musician
  • Exciting

• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Information
  • Artists
  • State

• I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Way
  • Exercise
  • Crossings

• By him just being alive is inspiration enough.

  

  Edward Gardner
  • Inspiration
  • Alive

• I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Reality
  • Inspiration
  • Transcendent

• Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Fun
  • Daydreaming
  • Schooldream

• I was born near a station. The first things that I saw in my life were the moving locomotives and trains, and I drew them as a three-year-old. Perhaps it is because of this that observations of movement are my impetus for my inspiration to create. Out of this I receive a creative experience of life, which is the source of creativity.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Born

• When you learn through coding, you're coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

  

  Mitchel Resnick
  • Way
  • Technology
  • motivation

• A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Cannot
  • Finished
  • Directly

• Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.

  

  Charles Bronfman
  • War
  • Mother
  • Age

• I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Source

• My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.

  

  Albert Payson Terhune
  • Patience
  • Writer
  • Call

• Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell...

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Hell
  • Shape
  • Corners

• The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Blues
  • Relief
  • Trials

• Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Inspiration
  • Israel

• If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

  

  Melanie Rawn
  • Inspiration
  • Idea

• Observation capitalizes inspiration.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Inspiration
  • Observation

• Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

  

  Eric Church
  • Inspiration
  • Bob Seger

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