#inspired

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ↗

— Helen Keller

#achieved #ambition #cannot #character #developed

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me. ↗

— Eric Davis

#getting #i #inspired #know #life

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#always #back #became #elite #ever

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

#always #another #country #desire #first

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#countries #day #days #earliest #her

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. ↗

— Paulina Rubio

#girl #inspired #percent #power #songs

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #every #i #i think #inspired

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ↗

— Andre Gide

#inspired #madness #only #reason #things