Inspired Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Hope
  • Inspired

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

  

  Eric Ripert
  • 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

• The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

  

  Paul Eluard
  • Inspired
  • Poet
  • Inspire

• My muse appears to me in a different form every time a new idea for a song is created. Sometimes I'm inspired by music or film, but more typically it's my surroundings that truly inspire me. Family, work, school, the city I live in, the books I read... All of these things inspire the creation of a song.

  

  Paul Thomas Good Charlotte
  • Song
  • Idea
  • Creation

• Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Reason
  • Sacrifice
  • Leader

• We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

  

  Tom Green
  • People
  • Way
  • Stealing

• As you continue to work on a show, if I still feel inspired, and I feel they are making exciting choices, then our enthusiasm remains. This is not a perfect science. It's an evolutionary process.

  

  Nina Tassler
  • Inspired
  • Show
  • Enthusiasm

• We're inspired by groups who always try to change and get better.

  

  Eyedea
  • Change
  • Inspired
  • Groups

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

  

  Elan Lee
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Transforming

• I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Candidates

• 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

• The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

  

  David Boudia
  • World
  • Together
  • Struggle

• 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

• I've never really written something that was inspired.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Inspired
  • Written

• As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Band
  • Player
  • Virtue

• I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Father
  • Animal
  • Natural

• I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Inspired
  • Working
  • I Love

• Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen both ways. I've also been trying to learn when to step away and take a break and when to keep pushing through. For me it's a delicate balance of staying inspired and staying consistent, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

  

  Ben Rector
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Pushing

• My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Financial

• They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what inspired the movement and kept it going.

  

  Ed King
  • Church
  • Moving
  • Christian

• The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • Picture
  • Handsome
  • Socrates

• By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Inspired
  • Tragedy
  • Artwork

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