Inspiration Quotes
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Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.
David Stoddart
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You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.
Ed Stetzer
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
Walter Darby Bannard
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People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Caryll Houselander
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It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
Ray Bradbury
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Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
Charles Ghigna
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We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
Lee Ranaldo
Sonic Youth
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One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
Dana Reeve
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Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
Gertrude Atherton
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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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.
Nasri
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As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.
Ivan Turgenev
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The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
Bhagat Puran Singh
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
William Saroyan
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.
Nicola Formichetti
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What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
Thomas Carlyle
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You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
Judy Woodruff
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My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
George W. Romney
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
Kasey Anderson
