Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Hill

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

Jaime Nelson

He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.

Rob Bell

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

Vittorio Alfieri

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Rudolf Steiner

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Virginia Satir

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Yanni

If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Martin Buber

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Wallace Stevens

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Leo Tolstoy

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Daniel Burnham

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.