#inspiration

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#philosophy #wisdom #art

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#fall #inspiration #out #run #technique

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#height #i #i think #inspiration #me

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#feel #home #i #i am #i think

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#life #philosophy #courage

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. ↗

— Bettie Page

#been #care #fans #feel #i

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#come #going #inspiration #me #mum

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#certainly #dad #flying #inspiration #now

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ↗

— Giacomo Puccini

#artistic #awakening #faculties #high #inspiration