In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts. " Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.
Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other media types demonstrating creativity. Or they know someone who always seems to have a lot of ideas and know that they can't match that. We all have a tendency to idolize those who create what we see in the media. I think it's better to use these people as models rather than idols, especially when these people have aspects of their lives that are similar to us. Then we can take their inspiration as we go on to be creative in our own way in our own lives.
Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time. . . Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation. . . Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
Violence against even one human being is violence against all.
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.
She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.
Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.
A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now there's something new they can aim for that's in their grasp. Because a lot of times when you attend a jazz college it's all about the history, none of the teachers there are forward-thinking, for the most part, so they don't teach you how to be yourself and embrace the music around you.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.