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• I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Pay, Bills, Today

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• A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

  Robert Breault

  Successful, Artist, Muse

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• The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wise, Men, Ideas

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• L.I.F.E. = Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Everyday, Fulfilled

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 13, 2013

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• I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Believe, Everyday

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• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Fire, Vanity

  1595 John of Gaunt, to Richard. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.31-4.

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• for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

  Plato

  Light, Poetry, Able

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Simple, Interesting, Humanity

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• You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

  May Sarton

  Inspiration, Feelings, Reason

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• And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

  Madame de Stael

  Travel, Destiny, Departure

  "Corinne" by Madame de Stael, Book X, Chapter VI, 1807.

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• I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

  George Michael

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

  Joanna Baillie

  Writing, Lovely, Magic

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

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• Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Inspiration, Inspire, Trying

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• Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you.

  Robert Holden

  Gratitude, Writing, Three Things

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• I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sadness, Rooms, Excitement

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.

  Philip Guston

  Past, Cezanne, Losing

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• In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Desire, Modern

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• I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

  Matt Smith

  Inspiration, Location, Influence

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• Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Art, Creativity, Air

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• I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Want, Achieve, Motivated

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• I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Careers, Important

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• Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Art, Men, Obscurity

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• When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.

  Charles Saatchi

  Wall, Special, Debt

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhist, Unique, Technology

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• When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.

  Jay Moore

  Bible, Powerful, Passion

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