Geoff Thompson Quotes
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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India always inspires me.
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When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.
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I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
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We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
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I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
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Love really inspires me.
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It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
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Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.
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I understand Simeone as a coach. His style and his passion for success are clear, and that inspires me too.
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Money inspires activity, not honesty.
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When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.
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I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.
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The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.
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My brother's really well-spoken.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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Whatever inspires you fires you.
