There's a Buddhist prayer, which is basically, "Whether circumstances seems good or bad, inspire me to maintain a habit of happiness".
"I would rather be beaten by a bad team inspired than by an efficient team," he was quoted as saying.
His bad actions inspired two indelible pieces of American art: Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska" and Terrence Malick's film "Badlands".
(Bad art inspired some of her best poems, just as the dreariest characters inspired some of Chekhov's best prose).
She also had a knack for acquiring terrible boyfriends whose bad behavior inspired her to hurt herself more, and who sometimes aided and abetted the abuse.
"The first time, it was an impulsive decision," said Mackenzie Jones, 20, who has kept a shaved head since she was 15, when a bad breakup inspired the act.
That bad science inspired J.L. Galache, an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., to figure out just how likely a spacecraft would get hit by an asteroid.
But the largely passive public reaction to the €19bn bailout of this "bad bank" inspired a group of architecture, civil engineering and urban planning students to pose the question: what could you build with €19bn?
It wasn't quite as stirring as the singing of the "Marseillaise" in "Casablanca," but hard times and bad news inspired some of the best work in years: flattering, inventive drapery; heat and vibrance to fight depression; and a flourish of creativity with fabric.
VERY bad". Though inspired by the rich characterization of the original series, Darren Bot's William T. Riker is over-the-top and hammy.
