Inspiration Quotes
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We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.
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We have a lot to learn from bonobos, because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
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My inspiration comes from the people I may not know but see all around me.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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I love to get inspiration from everywhere.
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Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.
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As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
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Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
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I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.
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To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.
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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
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I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and work.
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Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.
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I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
