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Quotes About Inspiration

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
~ Peter O'Toole
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
~ Truman Capote
If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.
~ Andy Andrews
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
~ Walter Bagehot
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
~ Merlin Mann
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
~ Kara DioGuardi
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Great moments are born great opportunity.
~ Nikola Tesla
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
~ Casey Stengel
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.
~ Agnes de Mille
To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.
~ Benjamin West
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
~ Bill Bradley
I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
~ Usain Bolt
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
~ Natalie Portman
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
~ Daniel Barenboim
The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.
~ Shepard Fairey
I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.
~ Adrian Peterson
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.
~ Steve Jobs
When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
~ Paul McCartney
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
~ Pat Riley
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
~ Maria Montessori
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
~ Thomas A. Edison