Best 556 quotes in «inspired quotes» category

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

There is nothing as easy as being inspired.

There were a few before me, there was a generation that started a little bit before me of women producers and Sherry Lansing, she was the first woman studio president, and she was really inspiring to me. I was inspired by other women in other fields, I was an adolescent in the 70s with the second wave feminism, and I got very inspired by that and felt like, you know what, there's no reason why I can't do this.

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

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

The study of yoga makes me inspired.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

The traditional roots of Scandinavian cuisine are not that spectacular, to say the least. When we write about the traditions that we are inspired by, it's more techniques like smoking, preserving. Many of them are not made to make food delicious; they're just around so that you can make food last through the winter. There isn't a great deal of tradition to tap into.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

This lifestyle is not about deprivation. It's about living inspired.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

To make art you need to be inspired.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.