Inspiration Quotes
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We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Inspiration is an empty bank account.
Frank Morrison Spillane
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I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
Judy Collins
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Less isn't more; just enough is more.
Milton Glaser
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Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.
Shekhar Kapur
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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
Stephen Covey
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The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.
R. Madhavan
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Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
Herbie Hancock
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If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.
Carlo Borromeo
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Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
Michael N. Castle
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With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.
Wes Anderson
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You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.
Hamilton Leithauser
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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.
Michael Parkinson
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
Agnes Varda
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When it comes to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.
Edwin Catmull
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration.
William Blake
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If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
Michael Tilson Thomas
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I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.
Amy Purdy
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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.
Terence McKenna
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
Willem Dafoe
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
Judith Tarr