Inspiration Quotes - Page 199

The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.