Quotes about Inspiration
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
— Marianne Williamson
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
— Mother Teresa
Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.
— Robin Sharma
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
— Toni Morrison
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
— Ayn Rand
The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.
— Bishop TD Jakes
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
— CS Lewis
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.
— Denzel Washington
We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
— Peter Kreeft
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
— Oscar Wilde
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
— John Updike