Inspire Quotes - Page 30

• Happiness inspires productivity.

  Shawn Achor

  Productivity

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God’s Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.

  Jordan Rubin

  Biblical, Simple, Perspective

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• Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

  Stefon Harris

  Moving, Home, Sleep

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• What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Aviation, Should, Century

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• New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Travel, Sight, Cities

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.177

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• All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Powerful, Powerful God

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Dream, Father

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.65, Bantam

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• Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  War, Book, Years

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 10, 1987.

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• Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Spring, Fire

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• I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Character, Years, Anxiety

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or "people.

  Roger Ebert

  Falling In Love, Stars, Real

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Art, Light

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• I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.

  Kevin Hearne

  Hero, Vampire, Wish

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.93, Del Rey

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• I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Two, Perfect, Enemy

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 23)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

  Abraham Cowley

  Humble, May, Sound

  Abraham Cowley, “A Supplication”

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• When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Real, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

  Robert Hilburn

  Fighting, People, Sorrow

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his league but he inspires me because he's not interested in playing himself; he's only interested in playing other people and the whole thing is like an adventure for him, it seems to me. It's some kind of spiritual exploration, which is an amazing, noble thing.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Spiritual, Adventure, People

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Never give up! Keep practicing - it's the only way to get better. But don't lose sight of the outside world. As an artist, you have to connect with the world around you, or you've got nothing to inspire you. Learn from everything and everyone, good or bad. It's just as important to learn what not to do, as well as what to do, in art, in life.

  Steve Landes

  Art, Giving Up, Sight

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• I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Leader, Minutes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Want, Able, Music Is

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

  Sara Genn

  Habit, Buried, Ability

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• Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

  Ken Danby

  Audience

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• There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

  Mary Renault

  Youth, Madness, Sometimes

  Mary Renault (1960). “The King Must Die”

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