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I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.
There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.
Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.
The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.
The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.
I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father.
I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.
Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.
It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.
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?
The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.
As one of the pioneers of modern hair care and cosmetics, Madam Walker is still an inspiration to a lot of people going into the business.
Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.
Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
I am going to take one day a month to visit non-technology companies to learn and get inspiration from other industries and organizations.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.