#inspiration

Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#dress #guidance #hands-on #how #inspiration

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#characters #come #fit #i #initial

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement. ↗

— Patti Digh

#inspiration #life-paralysis #self-confidence #change

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#dignity #harmony #his #i #inspiration

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration. ↗

— Anna Sui

#books #designer #great #had #i

No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! ↗

— Tricia Cunningham

#fitness #health #inspiration #motivation #weight-loss

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on! ↗

— Tricia Cunningham

#inspiration #diet

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy. ↗

— Jesse McCartney

#consider #earth #guy #humanitarian #i

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#felt #fiction #general #i #influence

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim ↗

— Jason Najum

#culture-critique #essay #humor #inspirational #memoir