Inspiration Quotes
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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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How shall we know that we obey God? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.
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The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
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Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
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I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
Colson Whitehead -
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
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Inspiration starts somewhere.
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.
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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.
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If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Don't wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.
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I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.
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My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
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Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
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Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
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What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.
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I always saw what the girls were doing, the supermodels, and they were my inspiration.
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There is Carrie Underwood, of course Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift - the three blondes in country music. They inspire me a lot, and just watching them perform and just be superstars is a big inspiration to me and it helps me learn.
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The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
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You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.
