Inspiration Quotes
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Brigham Young
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My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
William Arthur Ward
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The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.
Antonin Sertillanges
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If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day.
Molly Ivins
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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.
Plato
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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen
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There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
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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.
Nick Blaemire
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Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?
Harvey V. Fineberg
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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.
Leon Russell
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Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream.
Reem Acra
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
Victor Hugo
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
J. G. Holland
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Melvil Dewey
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The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
Chiara Ferragni
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
William Faulkner
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What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.
Letitia Wright
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I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
William McKinley
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
Steven Pressfield