Inspiration Quotes
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I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do.
Allison Winn Scotch
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A community chalkboard is about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.
Candy Chang
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Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.
Cory Trepanier
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
Mencius
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A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.
Stephen Spender
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
William Faulkner
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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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I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.
Bonnie Raitt
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That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.
Mick Ebeling
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Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.
Aristide Maillol
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The morning, when I need to have opinions and answers across the board very quickly, is a constant fight between ease and inspiration, what will make our lives easier versus what will make us excited because we were ambitious.
Allison Silverman
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
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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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I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma Bombeck
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Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.
Eugene Delacroix
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Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open–hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child–like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child–like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.
Michael Jackson
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I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
Nicholas D. Woodman
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There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Michael Hansmeyer
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A lot of my inspiration comes from everyday people.
Alexa Bliss
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Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
Erik Spiekermann
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A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
Shekhar Kapur
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Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul after the death of his son. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.
Clyde Butcher
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Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
Elaine de Kooning
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In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Anthony Robbins