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| Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its INSPIRATION. | James Connolly | |
| The ultimate INSPIRATION is the deadline. | Nolan Bushnell | American Businessman, Founder of Atari Computer |
| Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your INSPIRATION freely. | Vissarion Belinsky | |
| INSPIRATION may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. | Aaron Copland | |
| Risk is essential. There is not growth of INSPIRATION in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else? | Alex Noble | |
| You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose INSPIRATION is pelf. | Alexander Trocchi | 1925-1983, Italian-Scottish Novelist, Poet, Translator |
| To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| The INSPIRATION of the almighty gives man understanding. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Enthusiasm is the INSPIRATION of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
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| My sole INSPIRATION is a telephone call from a director. | Cole Porter | 1893-1964, American Composer, Lyricist |
| The greatest INSPIRATION is often born of desperation. | Comer Cotrell | American Businessman, Founder of Pro-Line Corporation |
| Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and INSPIRATION and let your whole life be Revelation. | Eileen Caddy | American Spiritual Writer |
| Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and INSPIRATION, I don't think you can go wrong. | Ella Fitzgerald | American singer |
| We should be taught not to wait for INSPIRATION to start a thing. Action always generates INSPIRATION. INSPIRATION seldom generates action. | Frank Tibolt | |
| True music must repeat the thought and INSPIRATIONs of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. | George Gershwin | |
| Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great INSPIRATION comes to the middle-aged. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| 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 | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or INSPIRATION is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. | Italo Calvino | 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist |
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| Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of INSPIRATION. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Without INSPIRATION the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. | Johann Gottfried Von Herder | 1744-1803, German Critic and Poet |
| The hero draws INSPIRATION from the virtue of his ancestors. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Better beware of notions like genius and INSPIRATION; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. | Jose Ortega Y Gasset | 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher |
| 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 | |
| There never was a great soul that did not have some divine INSPIRATION. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| The lyricism of marginality may find INSPIRATION in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. | Michel Foucault | 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher |
| As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual INSPIRATION of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. | Pablo Picasso | 1881-1973, Spanish Artist |
| 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 | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
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| To what greater INSPIRATION and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? | Queen Elizabeth | 1926-, Current Queen of the United Kingdom |
| The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in 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 | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The torpid artist seeks INSPIRATION at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine INSPIRATION. | Richard of Saint Victor | |
| When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is INSPIRATION. | Robert Bresson | 1907-, French Film Director |
| Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. | Robert Browning | 1812-1889, British Poet |
| While I take INSPIRATION from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. | Ronald Reagan | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for INSPIRATION all year long. | Source Unknown | |
| An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. | Source Unknown | |
| Genius is one percent INSPIRATION and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
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| His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of INSPIRATION one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Do not quench your INSPIRATION and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. | Vincent Van Gogh | 1853-1890, Dutch Painter |
| Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. | William Congreve | 1670-1729, British Dramatist |
| Here is the secret of INSPIRATION: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. | William Feather | 1888-18, American Writer, Businessman |
