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"We should be taught not to wait for Inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates Inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." »Frank Tibolt
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"A deadline is negative Inspiration. Still, it's better than no Inspiration at all." »Rita Mae Brown
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"You can't wait for Inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." »Jack London
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"Quotes are nothing but Inspiration for the uninspired." »Richard Kemph
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"Genius is 1 Inspiration and 99 perspiration." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"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
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"The glow of Inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture." »Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
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"Do not quench your Inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"While I take Inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future." »Ronald Reagan
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"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness." »Aaron Copland
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"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
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"Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance." »Jean Anouilh
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"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long." »Leonard Bernstein
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"We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that Inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey." »Albert E. Cliffe
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"Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and Inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none." »Giuseppe Mazzini
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or Inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates
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"The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for Inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill
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"I learned...that Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." »Brenda Ueland
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"Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward." »Thomas Leonard
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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual Inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Genius is one percent Inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of Inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"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 Sydenstricker Buck
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"Perpetual Inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life." »Andrew Bonar Law
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"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an Inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman" »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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