Inspiration Quotes - Page 31

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fashion, Past, Nostalgia

  "Lana Del Rey is 'oh so pretty' for 'British Vogue'" by Andi Teran, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Motivation, Technology

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• Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

  Li Ka-shing

  Strong, Innovation, Vision

  "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Inspiring, Christmas, Dream

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• Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

  Jack LaLanne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  Patty Duke

  Insanity, Mental Health, Mental Illness

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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• There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humor, Aspirin

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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memorial Day, Spring, Order

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Art, Doe, Painting

  "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News, March 3, 2005.

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• The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Art, Truthful, Source

  "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News, March 3, 2005.

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• All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Feelings, Important

  "On my painting". Republished text of Beckmann's public speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art' in London, July 21, 1938.

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• The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivation, Men, Worthwhile

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• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Addiction

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• A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Luck, Beginners

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• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Men, Hands, Brave

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Learning, Creativity, Skills

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• Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Locks, Woods

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Education, Growing Up, Science

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Different, Sometimes, Mathematics

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slave Labor, Slavery, No Hope

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

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• It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crazy, Meditation Practice, Feel Good

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• Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Art, Warrior, Practice

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• You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

  Paul Smith

  Fashion, Ifs

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