Inspiration Quotes
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There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare
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Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.
Brett Dennen
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Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.
Nita Engle
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I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day.
Zazie Beetz
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
William Feather
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No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
Heber J. Grant
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I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Mukesh Ambani
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I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.
Jill Scott
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Patty Duke
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Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.
Jenna Ushkowitz
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Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.
Ed Kowalczyk
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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.
Sebastian Roche
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Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.
Gavin Friday
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I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
Brendan Gleeson
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I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.
Blanca Li
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I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.
David Batstone
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Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
Brett Weston
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.
Mike Vallely Black Flag
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I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
Joel Kinnaman
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What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs and the inspiration to conduct your life properly.
William of Malmesbury
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Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.
Kim Swift
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Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?
Ricky Reed