“Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.” PlayInspirationThreeResultsProfoundTheatreSeatsIndolence Author:Jean Cocteau
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.” EnoughInspirationLife IsAsksResultsConfidenceGood EnoughApproval Author:David Luiz
“I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.” NeedsWritingMindEndsInspirationSimpleLove IsResultsStudiosHonestlyEnd ResultsSimple Love Author:Moby
“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” InspirationPassionResultsTeamInfluenceInspireImpactCustomersTitlesMatesDesignationTeam Mate Author:Robin Sharma
“Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.” MenWorldMeanChildrenDoeEnoughInspirationChristianResultsRightsSkyAtheismCivilizationEqualWorshipDiscoveryFellowsPositive AtheismInventionObligationCivilizedFellow ManEqual RightsDischargeUseful Things Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensMadeSelfInspirationCultureLeftChanceResultsEmotionKnownTechnologyFiveGreaterMankindPercentCapacityMiseryFiftyEthicalStabilityVagueIntuitive Book:The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
“In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.” PlayHandsInspirationMotivationDecisionResultsLeaderTeamDriversTeamworkExecutionProvidingDominationStimulusEnablingConductorTeam Leader Author:Robert Heller
“The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek.” WantInspirationalSelfInspirationResultsWonderJudgingLetting GoBlameTailsCagesChasingWant UAttackingInner SelfHamsters Author:Joe Vitale