Inspiration Quotes
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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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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
Francis Chan
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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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It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
Ray Bradbury
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Well, honor is the subject of my story.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.
Jimmy Webb
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I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.
Eyedea
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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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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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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.
Caterina Fake
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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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I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma Bombeck
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When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
Stockard Channing
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In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Anthony Robbins
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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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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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I was thinking when he hit his 500th home run about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.
Ernie Banks
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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
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot