Monday, 28 January 2013

Inspiration - Quotes

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. - Chuck Palahniuk

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you. - Grace Coddington

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. - John Milton

Do not give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I do not think you can go wrong. - Unknown

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it. - Jack London

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. - William Feather

I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one’s creativity is opened. - Giacomo Manzu

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. - Dodie Smith

I learned… that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. - Brenda Ueland

I think inspiration is always around; it’s just a question of whether or not you're noticing it. - John Green

If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. - Ben Nicholas

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. - Unknown

Inspiration flows naturally from the person who has a willingness to learn, a desire to serve, and the humility to match his achievements. - Unknown

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. - Chuck Close

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. - Lisa Alther

Inspiration plus perspiration produces a sensation. - Unknown

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L ’Engle

It isn’t that inspiration doesn’t exist, but it comes only with writing. - John Braine

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. - Igor Stravinsky

Observation capitalizes inspiration. - Alex Osborn

One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. - Napoleon Boneparte

To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower; to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour – is inspiration. - William Blake

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. - Roger Zelazny

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. - Amy Tan

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