Top 1200 Looking For Inspiration Quotes & Sayings

My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts - I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration.

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

When you're famous, you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for influence.

What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.

What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.

I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.

I am actually looking most forward to seeing the country again. It's a wonderful town and the wilderness around there is beautiful. The falls there were an inspiration in my book My Side of the Mountain

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

We need to stop imitating the West and looking there for inspiration.

I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.

When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

Inspiration is everywhere - life, travel, childhood, nature - it depends on how you see it, how you can absorb the inspiration, and it depends on how your mind thinks. It could be a pattern on the floor that may be the next pattern I put on a cake, it just depends upon how you take it, when you're seeing it and what you're looking for.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

There isn't one thing in particular; rather, a lot of different things give me inspiration. I tend to come up with tunes when I do things that are not part of my daily routine, like traveling. But even during my everyday life, I come up with tunes when I'm emotionally moved. By looking at a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration.

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

I definitely get inspiration from the 'gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.

A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

I am aware of how many young girls are out there looking for inspiration and for role models and I want to make sure I don't let them down.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.

People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.