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

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
Karl Urban

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinley

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
Thomas Keller

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
Stephen Gardiner

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
Eddie Floyd

The idea was to come up with a song that had the same kind of feeling and inspiration as Fame and yet be different from Fame. I certainly didn't want to do Fame II.
Irene Cara

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
Bede Griffiths

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake

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

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
Beth Gibbons

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
John Kricfalusi

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
Mike Tyson

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.
Kristi Yamaguchi