Top 100 Inspiration Work Quotes
#1. Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
Karl Lagerfeld
#2. Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
Michael Crichton
#3. Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Joan Armatrading
#4. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you
Sunday Adelaja
#5. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#6. There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.
Bruce Hornsby
#7. It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#8. I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.
Nick Blaemire
#9. Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.
Tove Jansson
#10. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#11. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
Jorge Bucay
#12. There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.
Richie Norton
#13. As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books at the same time that are totally different [and] then have two stories mix together.
Ali Banisadr
#14. Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#15. Make today a gift to your future self.
Anonymous
#16. One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
Leonard Cohen
#17. Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
Willa Cather
#18. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#19. My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
Jamie Wyeth
#20. Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
Ann Patchett
#22. All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
Samuel R. Delany
#23. Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
Harvey MacKay
#24. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
Seth Godin
#25. All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
Adhir Kalyan
#26. Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work.
Mason Currey
#27. Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
Mark Cuban
#28. You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#29. If I have learned anything over this last year it's that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn't work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.
T.S. Krupa
#30. Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!
Tara Fairfield
#32. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#33. 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
#34. Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
Mark Cuban
#35. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#36. People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit.
Amit Kalantri
#37. One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#38. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
Don Roff
#39. Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Chuck Close
#40. If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.
George Lois
#41. Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
George Gershwin
#42. The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.
Maurice Blanchot
#43. Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated.
Alexey Brodovitch
#44. Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)
Randy Alcorn
#45. It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.
Thomas Mann
#46. You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
Richie Norton
#47. The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.
Gerald R. Ford
#48. It is only by giving our very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.
Michael Dell
#50. Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#51. I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
Quentin Blake
#52. If your small work does not experience increase and growth, you will be starving yourself inspiration
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Every time you walk through a doorway today, whether at work or at home, know that on the inner planes you are walking through a doorway to heaven. An that is every doorway, as long as you recognise this in your consciousness.
Harold Klemp
#54. Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Eubanks
#55. When it come to working out: It would seem, the days we feel like it the least are the days we need it the most.
Mark W. Boyer
#56. When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.
Gretchen Rubin
#58. Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
Don Roff
#59. When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#61. People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.
Marilyn Suttle
#62. There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
Daniel Sunjata
#63. Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer
Sunday Adelaja
#64. I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.
Satoshi Tajiri
#66. Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.
Steven Cuoco
#67. I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'
Josh Peck
#68. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.
Amit Kalantri
#70. I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection of life, inside and around us.
Jeet Aulakh
#71. [When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
#72. Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.
David Byrne
#73. If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.
Wayne Dyer
#74. A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
VIRGIL PROFEANU
#75. There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.
Francisco Costa
#77. 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
#78. I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.
Pat Mora
#79. As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!
Jim George
#81. Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.
Mike Rowe
#82. When I have fully executed this phase of my life, then I can begin a new chapter.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.
Eileen Cady
#84. Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.
Kody Chamberlain
#85. I think I can work anywhere, but you don't get the same kind of inspiration everywhere. New York theater has become a big inspiration for me. I only started writing for the stage myself because I like to see the good, mostly off-Broadway plays in New York.
Daniel Kehlmann
#86. Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.
Amit Kalantri
#87. I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
Dasha Zhukova
#88. There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.
Josemaria Escriva
#89. Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
Helen Hanson
#90. I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
Graeme Murphy
#91. It's never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can't just bombard people with messages anymore.
Ajaz Ahmed
#92. Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.
Rob Liano
#95. But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
David Sedaris
#96. I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#98. Work filled with inspiration is worship.
A heart filled with courage is unbreakable.
A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.
G.G. Renee Hill
#99. One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form; proving dreams really can come true.
Renae A. Sauter
#100. Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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