Inspiring Quotes
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Laurie Anderson
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Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.
Carl Orr
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We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew.
Eileen Collins
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Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine
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I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.
Brett Dennen
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Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.
Estelle
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
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The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.
Ben Lerner
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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.
Erna Solberg
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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Eudora Welty
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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
Paul Newman
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You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.
Meredith Vieira
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Erica Jong
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It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.
William L. Swing
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The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.
Edward Frenkel
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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
George Washington
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Tony Blair
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I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.
Eric Thomas