J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

I feel good when my films get all the love, respect, and appreciation. That is my driving force to do better work in future.

My daughter and my wife inspire me to make movies.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

I'm not a huge award type person, that's not really what lights my fire.

I'm not going to do a film unless there's something in it to excite me.

The fans are the motivators that keep me creating my style of content.

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be the second.

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.