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Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.
As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.
Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.
It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.
My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.
There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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].
Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life, and her achievements will prove an inspiration to readers around the world.
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.
Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.
SEX! Now that I have your attention... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.
Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.
Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was awesome.
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.