Quotes About Inspiration

When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.

the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling

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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think," -Bunnymund

Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.

I know love. So if it's true, like Sister Eve says, that God is love, then I guess I believe.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

It was a city built on promise, on compromise, on inspiration and empty rhetoric both, on history poorly remembered and easily bent, and once in a while, on good people with the best of intentions who battled against the distrust, misdirection, and deceit that was politics as usual. (Referring to Washington, D.C.)

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