Top 100 To Get Inspired Quotes
#1. I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.
Mystikal
#2. I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.
Bow Wow
#3. I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.
Wes Borland
#4. With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.
Alessia Cara
#5. Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"
Tim Gunn
#6. Criticism is poisonous...to others and to self..Ever heard of the statue of a CRITIC being erected for others to get inspired by ?? ...not in the history of mankind !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#7. I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
Steven Tyler
#8. I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
Alexander Wang
#9. I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
Florentijn Hofman
#10. I like to watch beauty gurus who are younger than me on YouTube to get inspired to take showers. Even just thinking about them is making me pissed and somehow motivated.
Grace Helbig
#11. I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
Imelda May
#12. Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#13. I invite you to read again the full accounts of this inspired vision. Study them, ponder them, and apply them to your daily life. In modern terms we might say we are invited to "get a grip." We must hold on tight to the iron rod and never let go.
Ann M. Dibb
#14. So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell
#15. I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon
#16. Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.
Buzz Aldrin
#17. I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.
Paul Smith
#18. There's no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. Once again Matthew was taken unaware by the extent of the feelings she inspired in him, his own limitless desire to fill her with happiness. "Whatever you need," he whispered, "Whatever you want, I'll get it for you. Just tell me.
Lisa Kleypas
#20. I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.
Martin Garrix
#21. My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad
#22. There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
Nat Wolff
#23. I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write.
Erich Bergen
#24. Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'
Evel Knievel
#25. There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
Michael P. Anderson
#26. It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
Dan Castellaneta
#27. Only a faithful and intense relationship with God makes it possible to get out of our own closedness and proclaim the Gospel with parrhesia. Without prayer our acts are empty and our proclamation has no soul; it is not inspired by the Spirit.
Pope Francis
#28. I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
Scout Niblett
#29. My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
Lana Del Rey
#30. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
Sameh Elsayed
#31. I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV ... anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.
Eliza Doolittle
#32. I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing ... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.
Terry Zwigoff
#33. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
Lenny Kravitz
#34. I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines
#35. Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other types of loss it's given a pass, allowed and even encouraged to go on forever?
Ron Currie Jr.
#36. I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
Channing Tatum
#37. When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed?
H. Raven Rose
#38. If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.
Christopher Paolini
#39. I absolutely love Indonesian restaurants! We have many Indonesian restaurants in Jakarta and I'd like to be able to visit all of them to taste their food. When I visit a restaurant, I get so many references for food and am inspired to create Indonesian cuisine in my own way.
Rinrin Marinka
#40. I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.
Colbie Caillat
#41. I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When my curiosity peaks and I want to know everything about the subject, I want to know how I can get more deeply involved.
Sophia Bush
#42. My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.
Jane Green
#43. A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#44. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
Billy Bob Thornton
#46. I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words ... and it's gonna stay there.
Roy Harper
#47. I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
Caroline Kennedy
#48. I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
Amy Adams
#49. I remember liking Betty White a lot. It was one of those things as a little child actress, you get inspired by experienced actresses and actresses that reach out to you.
Ariana Richards
#50. I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.
Cindy Meehl
#51. I am inspired by working professionals who find lots of time for family and friends. It is easy to get caught up in a career, and I personally aspire to maintain strong connections with the people who matter most to me.
Rose McIver
#52. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
Aidan Quinn
#53. If you are a Church Of One, do you trust your congregation? When you want to be inspired by an icon representing something bigger than yourself, don't you ever get tired of just looking into the mirror?
Frank Schaeffer
#54. I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
Action Bronson
#55. I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
Stevie Wonder
#56. All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.
David Tennant
#57. I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Nelly
#58. I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
Joe Perry
#59. Get Inspired: I'm continually inspired by Stuart Brown's work on play and Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind.4 If you want to learn more about the importance of play and rest, read these books.
Brene Brown
#60. The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#61. DIG Deep = "get deliberate, inspired, & going"
Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply by setting intentions;
Inspired to make new and different choices;
Going. They take action.
Brene Brown
#62. After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
James Iha
#63. I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.
Robert Herjavec
#64. It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.
Roseanne Barr
#65. Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#66. Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
Antony Hegarty
#67. I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get to travel the world, I get to witness history ... and I'm constantly inspired by the different amazing characters I meet along the way.
Clarissa Ward
#68. When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice, so we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.
Akiane Kramarik
#69. What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
#71. I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.
Pink
#72. Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
Lee Trevino
#73. I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#74. I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman
#76. I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children ... and they're all going to do this ... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.
Stevie Nicks
#77. The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.
John Niven
#78. Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.
Austin Scarlett
#79. I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.
Amy Sedaris
#80. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.
Joseph Mawle
#81. Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.
Yelawolf
#82. In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Elihu Root
#83. I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships ... EVERYTHING.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#84. I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model.
Steven Bauer
#85. I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it's really busy and it's like the real city and then I come to Miami and I'm just in a happy place.
Nina Agdal
#86. I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.
Nancy Lublin
#87. I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
R. Kelly
#88. Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.
Bre Pettis
#89. It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason ... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.
Conor Oberst
#90. A woman is beautiful when she stands out as an individual - it's a woman who has her own style and the confidence to pull it off. Half the women on the streets in New York City achieve this. I get so inspired every time I'm there.
Christina Hendricks
#91. I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me ... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.
Shaun Tan
#92. I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
Nan Goldin
#93. When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.
Seann William Scott
#94. George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.
Andrea Tantaros
#95. I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Iris Apfel
#96. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton
#98. As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.
Cara Santana
#99. As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
Steve Breen
#100. I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.
Kevin Spacey
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