People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.
I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother. " That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.
What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.
To make art you need to be inspired.
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
More often than not when we do not like our work, it's not necessarily because of the work itself. But more often because of the people we work with and more importantly because of the lack of leadership. It is amazing how inspired and motivated we can be when we like the people and when we feel like we show up to work because our leaders care about our wellbeing. It is kind of incredible actually.
Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.
I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.
I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.
The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.
I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.