Inspiration Quotes

"To hire is to take people higher…"

- Haresh Sippy

"Be curious. Use data. Leverage imagination. Be an expert. Be an enthusiast. Be authentic. Know your competition."

- Jim Stroud

"You're going to make it; You're going to be at peace; You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live; You're going to do great things."

- Germany Kent

"One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are."

- Steve Jobs

"You're a wizard, Harry."

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

- Alan Turing

"As with everything else about children's behavior, there's nothing like a good role model. If you value play, your child will, too."

- Madeline Levine

"And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."

- Maya Angelou

"It arrived in August, a beautiful thing, powerful and yet lithe."

- John Steinbeck

"Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her."

- Walter Russell

"If a story is in you, it has to come out."

- William Faulkner

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."

- Maya Angelou

"A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I’ve done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry books that maybe 50 people read. And you just keep doing your work because you have to, because it’s your calling. But it’s beautiful to be embraced by the people. Some people have said to me, ‘Well, don’t you think that kind of success spoils one as an artist? If you’re a punk rocker, you don’t want to have a hit record …’ And I say to them, ‘$@#* you!’ One does their work for the people. And the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is. You don’t do your work and say, ‘I only want the cool people to read it.’ You want everyone to be transported, or hopefully inspired by it. When I was really young, William Burroughs told me, ‘Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.’"

- Patti Smith

"Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that's you."

- Kij Johnson

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that [s]he has come upon the right word."

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

- Joseph Joubert

"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke."

- Arthur Plotnik

"You can make anything by writing."

- C.S. Lewis

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."

- Aldous Huxley

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

- C.S. Lewis

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars."

- Mufasa

"So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I."

- Mufasa

"I would have you day by day, fix your eyes upon the greatness of your country (in this case, your football program); until you become filled with love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory reflect that it was acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it"

- Pericles

"The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building."

- Louis Kahn

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

- Frank Gehry

"It’s amazing how an uplifting quote has the power to completely change your perspective. One quote that touches your heart or reminds you of your dreams can inspire steps that change everything."

""Some people come into your life and just really make their mark. They inspire you to be your best and to constantly seek to improve. They bring out the best in you and help you reach your true potential. That wasn't you, but maybe it will be your replacement. Can't wait to see who we hire. Happy retirement.""