Zitat des Tages über Inspiration:
Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.
'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
I'm always looking for inspiration.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.
I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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.
Sometimes I look up a recipe for chicken and tomatoes and end up cooking pork. The inspiration gets lost in translation.
I'm totally obsessed with Tilda Swinton. She has this strange, beautiful sexiness about her. I love everything she does. And I love her hair. It was a little bit of an inspiration for mine.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.
For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.
After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.
In the end, I want to be an inspiration to somebody.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.
This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.
The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.
I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!