Quotes with inspiration

  • James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
  • When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
  • When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
  • I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
  • The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
  • 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.
  • Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
  • Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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  • Rita Mae Brown A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Alex Noble 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
    Australian athlete and motivational speaker
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • John Philip Sousa Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Oscar Wilde As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard Dawkins Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Birch Bayh Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Beyonce Knowles Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ang Lee Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Vincent van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Billy Joel Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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