Inspiration Quotes
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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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Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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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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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
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My mom, she's the general, ... She runs the team. She has always been my inspiration. She's a very, very strong woman. She's passive and laid back and calm, but at the same time she can get in your grill, on your case. I believe that every good parent evolves, that a parent keeps growing until it's time for their kids to be on their own. That's the way she was.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know".
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The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
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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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People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?
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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.
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Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
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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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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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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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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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Write about what makes you different.
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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.
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Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
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You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.
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The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.
