I Quotes
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“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”
“Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire.”
“Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.”
“Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.”
“Inspiration is a wonderful gift to give ourselves each day.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.”
“Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind .”
“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”
“Inspiration is an empty bank account.”
“Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.”
“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.”
“Inspiration is both the cause and the effect of living a positive life.”
“Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.”
“Inspiration is cross-pollinating.”
“Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”
“Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.”
“Inspiration is everywhere around you, how you take it depends on your own perception.”
“Inspiration is everywhere so don't get trapped in reading and watching too much. Get out. Talk to people, friends, family, loved ones. Draw inspiration from everyday life. It has inexhaustible references and is always original.”
“Inspiration is everywhere! I think you just have to have your eyes open.”
“Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!”
Source: The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner
“Inspiration is finding something that excites you.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."”
“Inspiration is for amateurs.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
“Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.”
“Inspiration is found in the unknown, what you discover there is up to you.”
Source: A coffee with Archangels: Light coaching for a better life
“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”
“Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.”
“Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.”
“Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.”
“Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.”
“Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.”
“Inspiration is intention obeyed.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.”
“Inspiration is like a silent gun.
It isn’t loud, but it gets you fired up.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.”
“Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.”
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.”
“Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.”
“Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.”
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'”
“Inspiration is nothing without work.”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.”
“Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.”
“Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.”
“Inspiration is sometimes as simple as a shared smile.”
“Inspiration is that little spark that comes at night to set our souls ablaze.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.”