Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do?

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Nothing will work unless you do.

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.