Quotes about Inspiration

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

The lesson is that one person with a persistent vision can make change happen, whether climbing rocks or delivering services.

Are you one of those people? One of the people with too many good ideas? The folks who have notebooks filled with notions, or daydreams filled with the future? You've certainly met these people. They're too busy taking notes to get anything done, too busy inventing to actually instigate. To stop this process, one needs to do only two things: Start. And then . . . Ship. Can't

We're all obsessed with ideas because ideas, not products, are the engine of our new economy.

You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

The way we make things better is by caring enough about those we serve to imagine the story that they need to hear.

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Each of us can show up in our own way, but the choice is the same: to lead, to create work that matters, and to find the magic that happens when we are lucky enough to cocreate with people who care.

A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters.

Marketers make change. We change people from one emotional state to another. We take people on a journey; we help them become the person they've dreamed of becoming, a little bit at a time.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Think for a second about the people you know who are engaged, satisfied, eager to get to work. Most of them, I'll bet, make change. They challenge the status quo and push something forward—something they believe in. They lead.