Who's your inspiration

[formality hater]

Hello everyone!I know this topic isn't a new one and might have been started before,but the way I have found you all picking and joining up the pieces of your characters and presenting before each other,so I also became keen to know about your inspiration/s.
In the world of today,you may not see "perfect" men lurking around so I am inspired by the people of the"GOLDEN AGE"
My grandfatherand Beethoven are number 1 on my list.
I am also inspired by my mother as she helps me through every thick and thin and knows how to deal with every problem.

[kilted exile]

I am my own inspiration, I dont want to be the second or third/6 billionth version of anyone......I want to be the first me.

[Pensive]

World is full of good people and there are lots of people who influenced me in a way or another. There are STILL lots of good people so I will not only have to look at the annals of the history. For example, my youngest cousin, she is very loving and caring. A person can not help to love her when see her. My eldest cousin is also hardworking and understanding and the cousin at the middle is also very nice to me and she is hardworking

Other people who have taught me good things are writers, musicians and artists. But I will say that among these so many good people, I am inspired of no one. I am what I am. I can never be what my youngest cousin is, neither what my eldest cousin is and nor what my cousin in the middle is....I can never be what George Eliot was.....and I will like to develop my own personality. So I will say that I am my own Inspiration. First of all, I am just Pensive!

Upstairs, Downstairs
Pensive is Everywhere!

[RJbibliophil]

I think my biggest inspirations are various Christians throughout the ages, like Corrie ten Boom, and then my Biblical namesakes.

[mono]

I would like to think that nearly everything inspires me in its own degree, and I strongly agree with kilted, having no ability to say it better, that I, too, inspire myself.
Other things, in no special order: nature, family, friends, art (all kinds), knowledge, wisdom human sense, philosophy, poetry, plays, spirituality, and, of course, my dearest love. ;)

[Shannanigan]

I don't really have so much as a "who" as a "what"....and there are a lot of "whats"....I get inspired by everyday experience, noticing something someone says, a tone in the voice, or the way something is placed or misplaced. I notice natural events, like seagulls hovering over a patch of ocean water where I can see fish jumping, trying to avoid being eaten by the bigger fish below them, but getting eaten by the seagulls. These observances inspire me, along with the wrenching emotions that my ever-dramatic and young friends are constantly pouring on to me on my cell phone (thank God Chris and I believe fully in monogomy and aren't so friggin' dramatic!!!)

Books that I read also constantly influence me; I don't try to imitate writers that I like, but I try and find what I like so much about them so that I can really figure out what it is that works for me in reading and writing...what does it for me (phrase taken from Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams). We can't help but be influenced by what we read, because to learn to write we first read, and so to learn to write literature, you will first read literature, and base your writing on what you've seen done...

did that make sense?

[formality hater]

All of you seem to know and believe in yourselves, and this is what makes you to be confident enough to walk between the thorny paths of life.

[earthboar]

...The imagination guru. Inspiration is subject to change, however. Why should it be the same source forever? I get inspired by rags-to-riches stories, and also by people who pursue their dreams even in the faces of mounting criticism and opposition, especially from members of their own family, which I guess reflects on my life situation. I feel lucky that I don't live on a desert island and have to inspire myself; that would really stifle my creativity resources.

[formality hater]

The imagination guru. Inspiration is subject to change, however. Why should it be the same source forever? I get inspired by rags-to-riches stories, and also by people who pursue their dreams even in the faces of mounting criticism and opposition, especially from members of their own family, which I guess reflects on my life situation. I feel lucky that I don't live on a desert island and have to inspire myself; that would really stifle my creativity resources.[/QUOTE]

WOW!!!!!!!!! :thumbs_up

[formality hater]

I love to see evreyone with different opinions.

[adilyoussef]

I find insperation in the things around me. What is special is that it comes like this without prior worning. I might be discussing a topic with a frind and be inspired to write. Yesterday, I took a shower and a poem came to my mind as a sudden. But the most important thing in this is my state of emotion and being. That interfers in the way I write. Most of the time, I don't think of what I write but write what sense. Most of the time I end up with rabish.

[grace86]

Every person around me means so much to me, that my life and thoughts are shaped by every single one of them. I am inspired mostly by my family, Christ, and my ambitions. But I cherish every moment that I get to be around and meet someone because I can just learn so much from them and their views of life that I might not have considered before.

[IrishCanadian]

Anthills ... just kidding.
though inspiration comes from all over I must give it chiefly to four men in particular: Yeats, Shakespeare, God, and my dad.

[tainaprincess]

My parents and teachers, who have seen the unique me, and encouraged me to be who I am, and who I want to be, not who they want me to be.

[thevintagepiper]

Christ, my dad, Poe, and Noyes.

[Stanislaw]

My father, Grandfather, Akira Kurosawa, Stanislaw Lem, Georgre Lucas, Jesus, and oddly the fictional characters: Jabba the Hutt, Yoda, R2D2 and O course: Dr. Malcom (from Jurasic Park)

[grace86]

Yeah, I left out my professor. He has inspired my career path into Anthropology. That's an important inspiration to forget to put in :p

[formality hater]

Yeah, I left out my professor. He has inspired my career path into Anthropology. That's an important inspiration to forget to put in :p
Teachers sure are best inspirations.

[BulletproofDork]

I think parents are good inspirations. . .sometimes:)

[Bakiryu]

I am my own inspiration but Nietzche helps :D

[andave_ya]

Boromir and Faramir.

[Demian]

Besides certain members of my family and scholars from the middle ages I'd have to say Ghandi. "I am part Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jew and Sikh." Good stuff.