You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.
There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.
That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"
When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of the past, like Cliff Sterrett, who did "Polly and Her Pals," or Winsor McCay who did "A Little Nemo in Slumberland," and Herriman - and I just looked through these guys and looked for somebody to steal. You know, looked for who I could swipe, or turn into - who's work I will turn into my work. And I still use, after all these years, these artists as inspirations. So, here in my eighties, I go back to when I was eight for my inspiration.
Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down
I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
