Best 11720 quotes in «inspiration quotes» category

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.

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.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.

A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.

Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

All angels bring revelations and tidings of their superiors. The first bring word of God who is their inspiration, while the others, according to where they are, tell of those inspired by God... the holiest of the seraphim 'cry out to one another' (Is. 6:3)... this shows that the first ranks pass on to the second what they know of God.

All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art. Their compositions contain specific messages brought through from high realms for the definite purpose of bettering world conditions and bestowing upon mankind greater illumination.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.