Inspiration Quotes

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
Edmondo De Amicis

Woman, Her, Face

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly

True, Cannot, Moral

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
Bettie Page

Care, Young, Wonderful

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
Maria Sharapova

Women, Find, Walk

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Maria Sharapova

Women, Through, Find

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
Billy Joel

Music, Money, Yourself

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
Harry Browne

Country, America, Free

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
Norman Lindsay

Art, Mind, Control

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Arthur Erickson

Art, Science, May

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint

Change, Less, Growth

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
Bonnie Raitt

Time, Find, Enough

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
James Cash Penney

Men, Greatest, Wealth

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
Carlos Ghosn

Job, Person, Done

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
Jon Meacham

Often, Read, Press

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston

Greatest, Daughter

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman

Comedy, Endless, Wellspring

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
Clive Owen

Crazy, School, Sun

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.
James Buchan

Best, Past, Difficult

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.
Chloe Sevigny

Great, Someone, Draw

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf Nureyev

Fall, Run, Technique

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike

Material, Packet, Arrives

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Jim Davis

Human, Stories, Animal

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
Venus Williams

Win, Through, Definitely

I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
Ellie Goulding

Crazy, Everything, Friends

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben

Person, Three, Writer

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben

Work, Fear, Job

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Used, Genius, Wants

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
Lafcadio Hearn

Away, Found, Quite

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
Gus Van Sant

Great, Filmmaking, Hendrix

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
Giada De Laurentiis

Love, Food, Mother

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