Quotes about Inspiration
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
- John Updike
Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- John Updike
I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
- John Updike
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
- John Updike
To become less and transmit more, to replenish energy with wisdom - some such hope, at this more than midpoint in my life, is the reason why I write.
- John Updike
Your heart lifts forever through that blank sky.
- John Updike
Make each day your masterpiece.
- John Wooden
Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.
- John Wooden
Make each day a masterpiece.
- John Wooden
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
- John Wooden
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
- John Wooden
Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.
- John Wooden