“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.” IfsWritingTwoInspirationUsedHoursInvolvedMerePlanningBeachProfessorsClassroomLectures Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.” ThinkingWorldMadeWholeInspirationSuccessfulFashionColorInvolvedClothesWhole LifeNaiveSamplePaletteFashion World Author:Gwen Stefani
“I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!” PeopleWorldStoriesInspirationSoundInspireSourceInvolvedSceneResearchMeetingsPlotVolunteerTwistsIntuitiveSource Of InspirationPlot Twists Author:Mary Alice Monroe
“My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMadeProblemInspirationTodayFilmArtistRecordsCreationInvolvedMy FavoriteMiddlemen Author:M. Ward
“I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.” PeopleThinkingIdeasInspirationRolesCasesInvolvedModelsGainsMeaningfulCoreWho I AmRole Models Author:Mike Vallely
“I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.” WorldMeanChildrenPersonsImportantInspirationReadingFatherHugeInvolvedMarriedBiggerEnglandTheaterMy ChildrenFuelImportant Person Author:Mary Steenburgen
“The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.” LittlesInspirationNextGenerationsInvolvedVoteExcitingRelyOrganizedPhasesPresidencyNext GenerationPerspiration Author:Barack Obama
“No highly evolved being would ever seek to control the thoughts of anyone, or cause anyone to think or act involuntarily. More along the lines of inspiration and invitation. As when one suddenly experiences an insight, or says, "I've just had a great idea." They can accept it and act on it, or reject it out of hand. There's no "control" involved.” ThinkingIdeasHandsInspirationCausesLinesAcceptingInvolvedInsightRejectsInvitationsGreat Idea Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” InspirationalInspirationDifferencesInvolvedCommitmentCommittedChampionTennisEggsChickensPigsInvolvementHamMotivational SalesSalespeopleInspirational SalesPoultrySales PeopleCommitment In BusinessInspirational CommitmentBusiness SalesFunny TennisInspirational SellingSelling Motivational Author:Martina Navratilova
“I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.” YearsInspirationInvolvedPhotographyThirteenThirteen Year Olds Author:Leonard Nimoy