Inspired Quotes

• I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Character
  • Inspired

• I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • She
  • Mother
  • Band

• I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Memories

• Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Inspired
  • Songwriting
  • Classic Music

• I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

  

  James Marsden
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • She
  • Education
  • Daughter

• My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • Good
  • America
  • Game

• I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

  

  Clara Hughes
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Excellence

• First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Inspiration

• I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Life
  • Music
  • Inspired

• I'm writing all the time. I want to do this forever. I want to have a box set someday. I can't stop. The day I stop being inspired to write songs, I'll go sit on the beach - until I become inspired again.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I simply wanted to advance the field of artificial intelligence so that computers could do what they do best (organize and analyze information) to help people do what they do best, those inspired leaps of intuition that fuel original ideas and breakthroughs.

  

  Paul Allen
  • People
  • Help
  • Intuition

• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Raven

• I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Good
  • Different
  • Inspired

• Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

  

  James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • Work
  • Food
  • Respect

• My father is my best friend. Just growing up with him inspired me to appreciate music that much more because he appreciates music.

  

  Musiq Soulchild
  • Father
  • Growing
  • Friend

• Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Time
  • Together
  • Inspired

• I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Done
  • Art
  • Kids

• I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Inspired

• I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Music
  • Book
  • Singing

• When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Words

• I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Time
  • Work
  • Random

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