Quotes about Inspiration
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
— Alain de Botton
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
— Alain de Botton
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
— Alan Turing
Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
— Francis Collins
I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.
— Miguel
We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.
— James Cleverly
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
— Kesha
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
— John Ortberg
It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.
— Sridevi
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
— Alain de Botton
My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.
— Rich Brian
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
— Dita Von Teese