Like madness is the glory of this life.
— Timon of Athens
Quotes About Inspiration
Thomas Edison's famous ratio, genius as one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, is usually read as a warning that the spark matters less than the hours that follow it. Marie Curie said something close in plainer words: she was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Goethe placed inspiration in the way we treat each other. Treat a person as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he wrote, and he will become it. Rabindranath Tagore looked inward instead, urging readers to reach high, for stars lie hidden in them. Nelson Mandela tied the subject to nerve, defining courage as the triumph over fear rather than its absence. Dostoyevsky found it somewhere smaller and harder to fake, writing that the soul is healed by being with children. The Buddha's version is the most practical of all: know well what leads you forward and what holds you back.
Goethe placed inspiration in the way we treat each other. Treat a person as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he wrote, and he will become it. Rabindranath Tagore looked inward instead, urging readers to reach high, for stars lie hidden in them. Nelson Mandela tied the subject to nerve, defining courage as the triumph over fear rather than its absence. Dostoyevsky found it somewhere smaller and harder to fake, writing that the soul is healed by being with children. The Buddha's version is the most practical of all: know well what leads you forward and what holds you back.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
— Dithyrambs of Dionysus
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
— Notebook
It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
— Great Expectations
But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
— Anna Karenina
The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
— The World As I See It
It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.
— Why I Write
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
— The Hobbit
— Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.
— Ion
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
— The Sacred Wood
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Meditations
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— The Little Prince
I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
— The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 2
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
— The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.
— Pensées
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
— Civilization and Its Discontents
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
— The Prince
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
— Metamorphoses
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
— Death in Venice and Other Tales
until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!
— Bob Marley Talking
The soul is healed by being with children.
I could go and buy one of the islands in the / Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.