Adam Zagajewski Quotes
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.
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I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.
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It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.
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I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.
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Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
