Quotation Explorer - 'Inspiration'

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it." - - Jack London
Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration. - Onyi Anyado
Spread sunshine and inspiration. - Juliet M. Sampson
Inspiration is that Power that makes you Seek and reach the Peak.- - RVM
The journey towards God has to be travel on your own. All the fear, setbacks, motivation, inspiration has to be pulled from inside. - Roshan Sharma
True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. - Chris Messner
If your small work does not experience increase and growth, you will be starving yourself inspiration - Sunday Adelaja
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. - Violet Haberdasher
The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity. - Fred C. White
One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching. - A.T. Robertson
A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration. - Israelmore Ayivor
Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What's your reason? - Rob Liano
The Klan as an Order stands behind Pure Womanhood and it is an inspiration to look into the face of one of your sex occupying the sacred desk and administering the Word of God to this people. - James Brice Klan, No. 28 Realm of Louisiana
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. - Aaron Copland
Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going. - Dee Dee Artner
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. - Shannon L. Alder
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion. - David G. McAfee
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. - Albert Einstein
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. - Helen Hanson
I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. - Philip Plait
When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to. - Diana Rose Morcilla
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. - Jean Anouilh
Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire. - Vironika Tugaleva
Inspiration is simply doing whatever it is you want to do. - Marty Rubin
The smile of a child is the inspiration for the future. - Debasish Mridha
Your information should be always inspiration - Sivaprakash Sidhu
All the inspiration that you need is already inside you. You just have to be determined enough to let it out. - Jason Landry
Inspiration is not the thing which can be seek, its right within you. - Ujas Soni
As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby. - Amit Kalantri
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way. - Ryan Lilly
Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action. - Amit Kalantri
Within us is Energy which when channelized, spirals into Inspiration. - - RVM
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
Seek God's inspiration first, then you will become an inspiration to someone else. - James Tamara
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. - Federico Fellini
Success doesn’t come from motivation. It comes from Inspiration. - - RVM
A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well. - Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration. - Johnny Rich
An example is the best inspiration for a young mind. - Debasish Mridha
For some people I was an inspiration. - Petra Hermans
Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. - Israelmore Ayivor
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. - T. William Watts
A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration. - VIRGIL PROFEANU
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. - Eric Schmidt
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. - David Rose
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. - Ron Koertge
David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars. - Eileen Anglin
Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times. - Max Hawthorne
Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul. - Farshad Asl
Let inspiration guide your actions. - Ana Ortega
Let me be in your inspiration. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. - Romain Gary
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature is unlimited and unconditional source of inspiration... - Petur Krustev
As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination. - Kate Collier
For an immortal life, don't look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others. - Debasish Mridha
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! - Darnaya Darice
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him. - Plato
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? - Naomi Klein
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs. - Plato
Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor. - R.G. Yoho
Inspiration is sometimes as simple as a shared smile. - Amy Leigh Mercree
We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences. - Michele Jennae
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom - Jennifer Sodini
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle
When Passion meets Inspiration, an Obsession is born. - RVM
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. - W. Somerset Maugham
The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done. - Lawrence C. Connolly
I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself. - Jayson Zabate
Inspiration works well at boiling point. - Debasish Mridha
Inspiration shouldn't respond to time, rather the other way around. Time must be altered to inspiration, "Timing is wrong" NO! Timing is never wrong. Sacrifice and the likes gets thrown in at this point. - Unarine Ramaru
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. - Brenda Ueland
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. - Eric A. Burns
Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice. - Phil Cousineau
Inspiration creates a never-ending Power that makes you go on and on and on and on! - RVM
I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White
Whenever negativity makes us drip, Inspiration creates a flip from Negative to Positive. - RVM
motivation is sustained by inspiration and the best fuel for that is change. - Giles Long
Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer. - Paul Bamikole
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration is everywhere. - Charlotte Eriksson
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic. - Spike Milligan
You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort. - A.D. Aliwat
No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity. - Ron Brackin
An external motive can never Inspire you. It will only Motivate you to move, but you will soon stop. Seek Inspiration! - RVM
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. - Sara Sheridan
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson
A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration. - Roshan Kolar
Be an inspiration for short time than living for a long time - shashidhar sa
Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view. - Aaron Hartzler
The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo. - William Blake
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. - Man Ray
Let's make our existence more joyous, fulfilled and full of positive adventures... Let's add more vivid colors to life in the world around us: making it happier, merrier, easier, healthier, tastier and brighter! Our project is a constant source of inspiration to support these ideas. - Sahara Sanders
Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order. - Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. - Lorraine Anderson
Inspiration is trying the unknown. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire
EVERYONE NEED EDUCATION,ITS THE NEED OF A NATION,IN IT IS FUTURE'S FOUNDATION,IT LEADS TO HEARTS ASPIRATION,AND TOMORROWS INSPIRATION. - merlin8thomas
Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.(<"Lost dreams") - Erik Pevernagie
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear. - Terri Frey Maxwell
No one is born with Positive Passion. This Power is ignited by Inspiration! - RVM
Start dream building. Create your goals in the real world. Imagine yourself at your best. Transform yourself with inspiration and work to achieve excellence for success. - Mark F. LaMoure
Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose. - Lee Pryke
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. - Marty Rubin
You don't have to wait for an inspiration to fulfil your dream because a dream is an inspiration itself. - Euginia Herlihy
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. - William Arthur Wood
I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name. - Carlos Wallace
KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures. - Ambrose Bierce
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein
There can be no forced inspiration. - Dejan Stojanovic
genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration - Thomas Edison
Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it. - Debasish Mridha
One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change - Prakhar Srivastav
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. - Britney Spears
Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians. - Dan Alatorre
Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. - Israelmore Ayivor
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.
A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration. - Debasish Mridha
With Inspiration, Liberation and Determination, you can reach any Destination.- - RVM
I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration. - Jay Woodman
The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. - John F. Kennedy
As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own. - Dana Gore
Be the consequence of finding inspiration not rent-a-storage for one. - Unarine Ramaru
When the inner Spirit has Liberation, Inspiration is born! - RVM
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation. - Eileen Cady
I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration. - Bill Loguidice
Every time I look into her eyes, I get a positive inspiration to serve humanity. - Durgesh Satpathy
Taking action is the best source of inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I Live in Poverty and That's My Inspiration - Kry Panha
Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it. - Tadahiko Nagao
yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... - Hiroko Sakai
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... - Hiroko Sakai
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art - Marty Rubin
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell
All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure. - Rob Brezsny
Anger is the most effective inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- - RVM
We live in a world where expectation exceed inspiration - Louise Philippe Dulay
inspiration is not a thing, its every thing, open your eyes and inspiration is everywhere. - L.L. Caulton
Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken
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
Why, 'inspire?' As y'all can see I love things with the word, 'inspire!' Well, let me remind you that all inspiration comes from God, and my prayer, is that He will lead me, to inspire you to find the true inspiration that He will freely give to you! - Mary Kate
Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling. - Gabrielle Tozer
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006) - Madeleine K. Albright
Let your actions, not your words, be an inspiration. - Debasish Mridha
Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume") - Chris Bell
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Money is very powerful inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. - Rita Mae Brown
Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. - Elizabeth George
Inspiration should always be free. - Jimmy Videle
Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can be priceless like that of love which is everything, connection, inspiration, devotion, attention, purpose… - Di Lee
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club. - Jack London
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling. - Zainab Salbi
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. - Adam Johnson
During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry. The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness. I recovered by inspiration of great souls, friends and family. Ever since, I have sought spirituality of soul and well-being over all other things. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich. - Wilfred Grenfell
Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want - Anamika Mishra
With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
No one is there for inspiration, but everyone is ready to criticize. - Istiak Ahmed
Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest. - Serafima
A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration. - Toni Sorenson
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything. - Jaeda DeWalt
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. - Aaron Copland
Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart. - Sheri Fink
Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast. - J.D. Means
Those who grow Tall by giving it their All, without the worry of Fall, are powered by a Passion, that is born from Inspiration. - RVM
My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. - Arthur Holitscher
If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration. - Chandan Sharma
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working. - Henri Matisse
Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. - Ellen Forney
Those who say I need Motivation will never create Inspiration that will take them to their Destination.- - RVM
Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop. - Unarine Ramaru
Don't waste inspiration - Salman Khan
Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled. - G.G. Renee Hill
Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Take on the challenge and find inspiration in the process. - Stefan Baumann
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. - Frank Lloyd Wright
If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep. - Vanessa
If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. - Amit Kalantri
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest. - Shannon L. Alder
The greatest inspiration you can find in this world is "YOU" when you help someone, encourage them, praise them, smile at them or just be kind to them that is a huge Inspiration to you and them!! - Angie karan
We can wait for that inner inspiration to come or we can actively cultivate it. The choice is ours. Choosing to actively cultivate the inner inspiration of the heart is Heartfulness. - Daaji
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness." - Victor Hugo
Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. - Sarah McLean
Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. - Ambrose Bierce
Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go, unattached to the way it needs to look. - Jill Badonsky
LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration! - Madan Mohan Mahapatra
Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation. - Santosh Kalwar
Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life. - Steven Cuoco
Love is the strength through which a heart starts speaking,Vertiginous windstorm that opens the door to madness.An inspiration that keeps us awake whilst sleeping,Magical breeze that blows away the sadness. - Nino Varsimashvili
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present. - Michael Poeltl
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. - Jean Anouilh
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. - Alanis Morissette
Do not fear criticism, accept it as an inspiration for boldness and action - Debasish Mridha
In life, you need either inspiration or desperation. - Anthony Robbins
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. - Man Ray
We are inspired only when we seek to be inspired. Then inspiration can be found in everyone and everything. - Akiroq Brost
Lead by inspiration, not intimidation. - Rebecca Aguilar
Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... - Joseph Conrad
Inspiration is both the cause and the effect of living a positive life. - Dayna Lovely
I don't want to be like my mentor or inspiration, I can do better. Don't get me wrong, I need them to motivate and inspire me but my potential can never be like theirs. - Unarine Ramaru
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates
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