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Quotes About Inspiration

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.
~ Marianne Williamson
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
~ Neil Gaiman
Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
~ Regina Brett
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
~ Theodore Roethke
Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.
~ Thomas Leonard
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
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will
~ Andy Warhol
Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.
~ Anne Sweeney
True creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
~ Audre Lorde
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
~ Blaise Pascal
To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.
~ David Ben-Gurion
And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
~ Donny Deutsch
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
~ Warren G. Bennis
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
~ David Nicholls, One Day
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
~ Joss Whedon
Write the book you want to read
~ Austin Kleon
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
~ Brian Eno
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
~ Dale Carnegie
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
~ Edgard Varese
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
~ Emma Goldman
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
~ Fulton J. Sheen