Inspiration Quotes
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.
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I want my daughter to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
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Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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Don't wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.
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Inspiration comes from everywhere: New York City is inspiration, my pedigree, every lesson that I’ve learned along the way from assisting, etc. But I guess the biggest challenge in shooting musicians is to really try to nail what that particular project is going to feel like forever. I always ask for as much information from my subjects as possible.
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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
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In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.
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It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
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We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
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What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know".
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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
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You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
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You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
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I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.
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You can curl up in the fetal position and try to wish away all the things that need doing, or you can get started on that uphill battle to reclaim your life. The difficulty isn’t what choice to make, because that part is obvious. The difficulty lies in finding the energy and inspiration to make the right choice.
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But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little inspiration... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.
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Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
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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.
