Quotes about Inspiration

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let's begin this new chapter — together — and let's start the work right now.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

When the good Lord put a burden on his heart, he listened.

I want to see, real, living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion! I want it real! I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too! Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes—which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification -which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.