“Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.” WantInspirationalShouldInspirationUsedMagicGeniusNotionWandsMagic Wands Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.” ThinkingInspirationTeacherPossibilityAmountInfiniteNotionEncountersSmallest Author:Greil Marcus
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.” LifeInspirationWomenChanceSelf EsteemOvercomingExcellenceExtraordinaryNotionMaking A DifferenceMediocre Book:Respect for Acting Source: Respect for Acting
“It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.” HumansWellsInspirationSeemsMotivationDifferencesBuildingDiseaseStandardsSafetyNotionObviousSpreadWell BeingHealthcareAirplaneTolerate Author:Sam Harris
“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.” IfsSometimesFeelingsHandsInspirationHappensAgeNumbersConsciousnessStepsTearsPoetFineUnderstoodStrongerNotionThings HappenEndlessDivinityEcstasyFloodToesStrainRelaxedLagOutburst Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product, the product of two ancient communities, biblical Israel and early Christianity. As such, it contained their understandings and affirmations, not statements coming directly or somewhat directly from God. . . . I realized that whatever "divine revelation" and the "inspiration of the Bible" meant (if they meant anything), they did not mean that the Bible was a divine product with divine authority.” IfsHumansMeanTwoInspirationUnderstandingCommunityChristianityDivineProductsLetting GoAuthorityNotionAncientIsraelI RealizedStatementsRevelationsBiblicalAffirmationDivine Revelation Author:Marcus Borg