The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it. " Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.
Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.
Talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is to such thing. It is mere a matter of craftsmanship.
Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.
The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.
Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.
We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes