--- title: "10 Moment Inspiration Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Moment Inspiration quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Moment Inspiration sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/devon-franklin-15376_feels_i-feel-like-you-only-need-one-moment-of_155304.png" --- > [I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/devon-franklin/i-feel-like-you-only-need-one-moment-of-inspiration-to-turn-your-life/) [DeVon Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/devon-franklin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/devon-franklin-15376_feels_i-feel-like-you-only-need-one-moment-of_155304.png) > [He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/he-who-is-best-prepared-can-best-serve-his-moment-of-inspiration/) [Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/838/samuel-taylor-coleridge-425_inspiration_he-who-is-best-prepared-can-best-serve-h_1058658.jpg) > [Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-marston/live-each-moment-from-your-own-inspiration-not-from-your-desire-to/) [Ralph Marston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-marston/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/ralph-marston-2044_desire_live-each-moment-from-your-own-inspirati_1880889.png) > [“Here’s what the moment of inspiration did. It assembled these cultural meanings in this particular package for this particular group at this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-millman/here-s-what-the-moment-of-inspiration-did-it-assembled-these-cultural/) [Debbie Millman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-millman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b4/debbie-millman-13877_inspiration_here-s-what-the-moment-of-inspiration-di_2835895.jpg) > [You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-keller/you-don-t-know-when-inspiration-is-going-to-come-but-you-have-to-be/) [Thomas Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-keller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfe/thomas-keller-10252_happens_you-don-t-know-when-inspiration-is-going_3134986.jpg) > [The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-ann-duffy/the-moment-of-inspiration-can-come-from-memory-or-language-or-the/) [Carol Ann Duffy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-ann-duffy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/carol-ann-duffy-10503_enough_the-moment-of-inspiration-can-come-from_2805632.png) > [“A lot of people wait for their moment of inspiration before they start, but what they don’t realize is that simply by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-meier/a-lot-of-people-wait-for-their-moment-of-inspiration-before-they/) [J.D. Meier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-meier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/j-d-meier-89512_inspiration_a-lot-of-people-wait-for-their-moment-of_1998577.jpg) > [“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/in-a-belated-moment-of-inspiration-i-decided-to-finish-it-with-the/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_inspiration_in-a-belated-moment-of-inspiration-i-dec_1901928.jpg) > [When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-hackett/when-i-m-recording-which-is-synonymous-with-writing-i-ll-play-things/) [Steve Hackett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-hackett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd4/steve-hackett-40118_inspiration_when-i-m-recording-which-is-synonymous-w_1216977.png) > [“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/it-is-a-well-known-established-fact-throughout-the-many-dimensional/) [Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/terry-pratchett-19_bad-luck_it-is-a-well-known-established-fact-thro_315296.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moment-inspiration/#itemlist", "name": "Moment Inspiration Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.", "creator": { 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There's a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clinches the whole thing is the sight of, say, a falling apple or a boiling kettle or the water slipping over the edge of the bath. Something goes click inside the observer's head and then everything falls into place. The shape of DNA, it is popularly said, owes its discovery to the chance sight of a spiral staircase when the scientist‘s mind was just at the right receptive temperature. Had he used the elevator, the whole science of genetics might have been a good deal different. This is thought of as somehow wonderful. It isn't. It is tragic. Little particles of inspiration sleet through the universe all the time traveling through the densest matter in the same way that a neutrino passes through a candyfloss haystack, and most of them miss. Even worse, most of the ones that hit the exact cerebral target, hit the wrong one. For example, the weird dream about a lead doughnut on a mile-high gantry, which in the right mind would have been the catalyst for the invention of repressed-gravitational electricity generation (a cheap and inexhaustible and totally non-polluting form of power which the world in question had been seeking for centuries, and for the lack of which it was plunged into a terrible and pointless war) was in fact had by a small and bewildered duck. By another stroke of bad luck, the sight of a herd of wild horses galloping through a field of wild hyacinths would have led a struggling composer to write the famous Flying God Suite, bringing succor and balm to the souls of millions, had he not been at home in bed with shingles. The inspiration thereby fell to a nearby frog, who was not in much of a position to make a startling contributing to the field of tone poetry. 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