Quotes about Inspiration

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.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.