Marketa Irglova Quotes

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.

All the success I want is to inspire and impact on people that I come across that watch the game.

I want to show beautiful things and share them with everyone.

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Everything we do affects other people.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.

I want to move people.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

Every person's every action has an effect.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.