Inspiration Quotes
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
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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.
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Inspiration starts somewhere.
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
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I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
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My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
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Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
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I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.
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My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
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I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.
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Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.
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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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What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.
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We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
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By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.
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Inspiration is an empty bank account.
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In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
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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.
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That’s the biggest thing people look past. I have a pretty intense attention to detail ethic. Anyone can start a song with a burst of inspiration, but finishing it and taking it all the way home requires ongoing inspiration.
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Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world
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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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Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.
