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To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.
My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.
Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
I think for me, I personally believe that's what God put me here to do, be an influence, be an inspiration to other people and help.
Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.
Alot of my inspiration comes from people that you don't see on TV like my mum and my grandma. There's so much history and knowledge.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.
Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.