Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

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

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

You shouldn't be looking for people slipping up, you should be looking for all the good things people do and praising those.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

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

That always catches you by surprise, you know, the amount of inspiration, should you choose to, that you can give to people.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

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