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Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.
My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.
Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.
Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.
I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.
You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
I'm my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I've been through so much, just in my life.
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.