Quotes about Inspiration

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing — there's nothing to be done for such people.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.

You have to carry the fire.

Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right.

The founders of quantum mechanics—Dirac, Pauli, Heisenberg—had nothing to guide them but an intuition about how the world should be.

Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Art-speech is the only truth.

Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.