Top 100 Find Inspiration Quotes
#1. The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
Michel Foucault
#2. As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.
Masiela Lusha
#3. I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.
Justin Vernon
#4. You can look anywhere and find inspiration.
Frank Gehry
#5. I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.
Christopher Paolini
#6. While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!
Nicholas Sparks
#7. Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidently done something brilliant in my life.
John O'Callaghan
#8. I find inspiration in literally just about everything.
Josh McDermitt
#9. I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
Bill Kreutzmann
#10. You don't get tired of muffins. But you don't find inspiration in them
George Bernard Shaw
#11. We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
Neil Harbisson
#12. When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.
Aron Ralston
#13. I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".
Beth Ditto
#14. May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.
Pope Francis
#15. I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
Grant-Lee Phillips
#16. Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration.
Inbar Shahar
#17. I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
Bonnie Raitt
#18. A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.
Dermott Hayes
#19. It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.
Jack White
#20. I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.
Harry Belafonte
#21. You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
Judy Woodruff
#22. Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
Maria Sharapova
#23. I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
Joel Kinnaman
#24. Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.
Marc Kielburger
#25. You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.
Marilyn Manson
#26. You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.
Paul Smith
#27. If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep.
Vanessa
#28. So she was to be savagely heartbroken and then poisoned by one of their cook's noxious herbal brews in the space of a few hours? Dante would find inspiration in this day.
Julie Anne Long
#29. May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
Adrienne Maloof
#30. I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.
Stephanie Cutter
#31. Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.
Nathan Sawaya
#32. Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature ... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.
Marc Jacobs
#33. If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Ben Harper
#34. Take on the challenge and find inspiration in the process.
Stefan Baumann
#35. If you are ordinary but hungry to obey God, may you find inspiration and encouragement in these pages. May you find the strength to say yes and be launched into your very own amazing story. - Beth Clark
Katie J. Davis
#36. I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Iris Apfel
#37. My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.
Marie Forleo
#38. Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
Janet Echelman
#39. All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
Adrian Tomine
#40. Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you - the same way it hunted down your ancestors.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.
M. Kirin
#42. Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#43. If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Robert Motherwell
#44. The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
Martin Parr
#46. When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like "What? There's no toilet?" Once you get used to high speed you ain't going back
Robin Williams
#47. Find your own rhythm, and confidently go with that rhythm. When you become one with the rhythm and flow of your own life, you will encounter the rhythm of the universe that bestows harmony and order upon all things: the pulse of the cosmos, Yullyeo.
Ilchi Lee
#49. One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.
Sheryl Crow
#50. Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
Sara Sheridan
#51. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.
Lynn C. Tolson
#52. For me to simply tell you to find your life's purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that's not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that's why you might be unhappy.
S.R. Crawford
#53. Make your Life Exciting. Find out what gives you Joy and makes your heart Dance, and Do it.-RVM
R.v.m.
#55. The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael Pollan
#56. When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
Elvis Stojko
#57. We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
Hayao Miyazaki
#58. Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could find success. You could find fans. Or, best of all, you could find yourself.
M. Kirin
#59. I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
#60. Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#61. A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.
S.R. Crawford
#62. Walk on your own yellow brick road. If you can't find one, spray paint your way into happiness. If that doesn't work, buy yellow shoes.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#63. It's that find some inspiration, it's that crack the installation, it's that quantum jump and that fist pump and that bomb detonation...
Kendrick Lamar
#64. Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
Mark Cuban
#65. Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
Natalia Vodianova
#66. You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don't take it personally, it's simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.
Steve Maraboli
#67. You best be considerin' the future before you find it arrived and done left you behind.
Vickie McDonough
#68. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
Oswald Chambers
#69. You didn't find strength when you couldn't live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible.
Martina Boone
#70. We tend to find what we look for in other people.
Sam Shoemaker
#71. Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will overcome any hurdles along your path.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#72. As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#73. After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.
Elvis Stojko
#74. Find what inspires you and act on that inspiration each day.
Mensah Oteh
#75. I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith ... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
Emmy Rossum
#76. God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
Ida Rolf
#77. There is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
Nikki Rowe
#78. I had to learn how to motivate myself and others; to give inspiration as well as keep pathways in my mind open so inspiration could find me.
Giles Long
#79. If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.
Melanie Rawn
#80. There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.
J. Loren Norris
#81. There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
Malik Bendjelloul
#82. Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.
Jacob Needleman
#83. Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
John Of The Cross
#84. Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.
Jamie George
#86. We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions ... this especially applies to what we used to call bad things ... the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
James Redfield
#87. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
#88. Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
Charles Ghigna
#89. I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
Nostradamus
#90. Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.
Van Day Truex
#91. Don't go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can't rush inspiration. ... Once your subject finds you, it's like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.
Colson Whitehead
#92. People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours?
Jenna Mullins
#93. He said that the music - its order and precision - helped him find the patterns in things - the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.
Geraldine Brooks
#94. Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
Pope Benedict XVI
#97. Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
Bruce Feiler
#99. Whatever person kids relate to the most, I want them to call me that. Sp of Hannah's more who they find their inspiration in, call me Hannah. If they're more an average girl who wants to blend in with everybody else, then call me Miley.
Miley Cyrus
#100. By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.
Rob Hopkins
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