Inspiration Quotes
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Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?
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If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
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You can learn to write. But what you write is something that depends on your taste and on your vision or whatever. Also, of course, the music I listened to inspired my idea of music. When people ask me "Where's your inspiration? Where does it come from?" I have no idea. Music is about music. Not about life and love.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.
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The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and my most ardent supporter.
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One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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One of my biggest influences is Mac Miller, so to follow in his footsteps would be incredible. He's definitely a big inspiration to me.
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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.
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The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
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Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
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Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.
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Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
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A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.
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Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.
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I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
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We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
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Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
