creativity

Leadership is based on inspiration,
not domination; on cooperation,
not intimidation.

William Arthur Ward

   

It usually happens that the more faithfully people follow
the inspirations they receive, the more do they experience
new inspirations which ask increasingly more of them.

Joseph de Guibert

      

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving,
but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must
regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it
with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

  

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start
a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration
seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

   

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds; Your mind transcends limitations, your
consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new,
great and wonderful world.  Dormant forces, faculties and talents become
alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali
   

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that
thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very
intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the
rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as
those that now baffle you.

William Feather
   
  

   

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Pablo Picasso

   

Nature is my manifestation of
God.  I go to nature every
day for inspiration in the
day's work.  I follow in building
the principles which nature
has used in its domain.

Frank Lloyd Wright

   

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London
  

  
Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times
and in the most inappropriate situations.  Often it arrives bit by bit.
Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable
item makes its appearance: the notebook.

Piero Ferrucci
 

Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think
about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the
energy carries you forward, if you allow it.  Planning… is a way
of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.

Chuck Spezzano
  
  
   

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago,
and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business
at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

George Bernard Shaw
   

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Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration
at the time.  True inspiration always steals on a person,
its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Samuel Butler
   

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop
an approach for the rest of the time. . . The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

   

   

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