Honore de Balzac Quotes

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Inspiration is finding something that excites you.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I always want to remain inspired.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

I'm always being inspired .

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

Passion is not something you have to talk about. People feel it.