“To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?” MenHeartChildrenWarCountryInspirationJoyMovementFieldsFindingsLateFingersClubsCornersActiveFlightThreadSixtyCommitteesCompanionshipSeventiesEldersNeedlesChimneysNeedle And Thread Author:Laura E. Richards
“Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.” IfsWantLooksInspirationHeroFindingsNewtonMy HeroMaxwell Author:Frank Wilczek
“When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.” FeelsInspirationMovingCertainTalkingDesignTasteConversationFindingsInspiredDialogueMoving ForwardDesignerLocationInteriorsInterior Design Author:Marc Forster
“I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.” WayKindInspirationFindingsInspiredTraditionalWordsworth Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.” MindLittlesFactsInspirationDoubtModernDivineFindingsCastsScriptureModern ScienceDivine Inspiration Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde
“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.” InspirationWorryComfortableFindingsEmpoweringMotivatedTerrifiedFinding LoveStop WorryingLove Again Author:Jonathan Tropper
“What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.” InspirationTalentGeniusFindingsFollowingNosesShortcutsTerminologyFinding The OneRight Road Book:The Uses of Literature Source: The Uses of Literature