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“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.”

Inspiration Actors Names Wish Bunch

Author:Kevin Corrigan

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.”

Stills Inspiration Names Given Process Highest Agree Deeds Noble Impulse Analysis Rapids

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!”

Trying Mind Believe Light Inspiration Names Direct Incredibles Almighty Peril Credulity

Book:Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)

Source: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)

“At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.”

“When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.”

Men Inspiration Seems Evil Jesus Names Taken Bears All Things Charity Witch Contrast Zeal Comprehending Loving Jesus

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.”

“I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.”

Thinking Inspiration Found Names Known Amount Bills Dollars Checks Muse Dollar Bills Lesser Known

Author:Kevin Keck

“I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.”

Persons Made Real Inspiration Names Lines Imaginary Outlines Real Person

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.”

Heart Sometimes Inspiration Christian Names Christ Attitude Opinion Beats Agree Method Bully Jerk Karate

Author:Jon Acuff

“I remember [Joe] Lovano came around to me at that time [of Monk competition]. And I had taken some lessons with Joe and I had seen Joe on the scene. He had always been so great to me, such and inspiration and so kind. One lesson that I had with Joe was just amazing. I'm just such a fan and an admirer of his on every level. He was like, "Don't worry... you're just out here. You just do what you're doing. Don't worry if it doesn't make you a household name or anything."”

Ifs Kind Inspiration Remember Names Levels Worry Taken Fans Lessons Scene Competition Household Monk Admirer

Author:Jon Gordon

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

Writing Looks Moments Inspiration Names Morning Positivity Cease Present Moment Live In The Moment Live In The Now

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...