Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your minds eye, and you will be drawn toward it.Napoleon Hill
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.Tom Stoppard
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.Rumi
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.Buzz Aldrin
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.Nikola Tesla
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.Oprah Winfrey
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.Salman Rushdie
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.Karl Lagerfeld
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
