Inspiration Quotes
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Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
John Michael Hayes
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking
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I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
Max Aaron
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To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.
Lorrie Moore
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I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.
Jeff Hardy
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It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.
Bryce Dessner The National
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It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Paul Stanley Kiss
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So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.
Sarah Kay
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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.
Deep Roy
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I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.
Lizzo
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I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
J. Golden Kimball
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
Bill Bowerman
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
Lela Loren
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Of course we know that an untroubled state of mind cannot last. So we say that inspiration comes and goes but really it is there all the time waiting for us to be untroubled again. We can therefore say that it is pervasive. Young children are more untroubled than adults and have many more inspirations.
Agnes Martin
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
Jason Boyd
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I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.
Earl Thomas
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Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.
Jacques Maritain
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Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.
Emilia Wickstead
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My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
Jenni Rivera
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These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.
Michael Eklund
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It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
Bettie Page