Alan Lightman on inspiration
Alan Lightman249 quotes“I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.”
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil KeaneBil Keane There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.
Benjamin CremeBenjamin Creme When you factor in population growth, it’s clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow.
Bill FordBill Ford We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, “Your cd helped get me through this year,” that’s all it takes.
Benji MaddenBenji Madden To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
Bill BonnerBill Bonner Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
Beth DittoBeth Ditto He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
Bernard of ClairvauxBernard of Clairvaux
