Inspired Quotes

• The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Inspired
  • President
  • Senator

• I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Soul
  • Inspired

• For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Believe
  • Results
  • Lifestyle

• I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Stop
  • Inspired

• Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

  

  Katherine Neville
  • Inspired
  • Killing
  • Muses

• And yet the doing is ours, not His. He inspired it, we wrought it out. He quickened, but we brought forth. His the heart-beat, but ours the hand-stroke; His the influence, ours the effluence.

  

  George C. Lorimer
  • Inspired
  • Influence
  • Brought

• The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

  

  Michael Schultz
  • Expression
  • Donald Trump
  • Large

• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Inspired

• I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Creative
  • Wondering
  • Cube

• Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide playing motivated Clapton to turn in some of the finest guitar performances of his career.

  

  Bob Whitlock
  • Career
  • Guitar
  • Motivated

• If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Guilty
  • Impulse
  • Proves

• The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.

  

  Asher Monroe
  • Music
  • Inspired
  • Making

• I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Inspired

• I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

  

  Erica Tazel
  • Inspired
  • Photography
  • Mentor

• I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

  

  Nick Flynn
  • Friends
  • Inspired
  • Deeper

• The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Working
  • Composer
  • Waste Time

• Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contridicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Clear

• There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Hope
  • Inspired

• I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Girl
  • Moving
  • Roles

• I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Up
  • Why
  • Remember

• I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Emotional
  • Hours
  • Computer

• The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • Film
  • Made
  • Motivated

• I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

  

  Elan Lee
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Transforming

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