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“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”

Way Needs Mind Wells Kind Doe Art Ends Body Inspiration Artist Certain Effort Particular Tools Function Paint Technique Efficiency Minimum Brushes Maximum Mind And Body

Author:H. E Davey

“A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.”

Inspiration Hope Leadership Leader Alive Teaching Function Prime Wrestling Keeping Hope

Author:John W. Gardner

“It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.”

Children Inspiration Parent Consequence Function Parenting

Book:Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical

Source: Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Inspiration Motivational Motivation Evil Function Philosophical Intelligence Good And Evil

Book:De Officiis: (English Edition)

Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)

“The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.”

Heart Inspiration Values Brain Virtue Blood Arms Function Mere Legs Psychological Organs Stem Self Development

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.”

World Inspiration Heard Youth Function Praise Supreme Rhythm Mortals Greek Contemplation Temples Educate Egypt Other Worlds Rite

Author:Plutarch

“It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function”

Should Inspiration Form Lines Written Creating Function Contemplation Consistent Melody Interaction Precise Sequence Chords Folds Molecules Protein Canon Geometric

Author:Christian B. Anfinsen

“Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functions—come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made.”

Way Doe Made Inspiration Beautiful Building Divine Blessing Authority Function Obedience Temples Bless Magnificent Faithfulness Covenant Priesthood

Author:James E. Faust