Eric Butterworth Quotes

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

Personally, I've got too many ideas to use in my lifetime, probably. But that's a nice problem to have, I think.

Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Ideas come from everything

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

When my mind is clear, I feel like I can give more of myself to those around me and hopefully bring light and joy and an infectious kind of energy to inspire them to do whatever they want to do. That's really the key behind it all.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!