Inspired Quotes - Page 34

• To make art you need to be inspired.

  Greg Lake

  Art, Needs, Be Inspired

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• Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."

  William Bourke Cockran

  Years, Voice, Long

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• It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Experience vs. Inspiration" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2008.

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• It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Creativity, Errors, Phrases

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• King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

  Tony Blair

  Kings, Men, Vision

  "Saudi king dies" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Why Not, Want

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• It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

  Bertrand Russell

  Modern, Achieve, Results

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Weekdays, Sabbath

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.34, Macmillan

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• [n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Believe, Inspiration

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• Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

  Shania Twain

  Song, Different, Acoustics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Remember

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• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Thinking, Innovation

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, World

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• The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Technique, Raw Materials

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• I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

  George Santayana

  Effort, Mind, Age

  George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Dream, Country, Memories

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• Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Green Fields, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4044, Delphi Classics

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• I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

  Tony Bennett

  Love Is, People, Bob

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.

  Shailene Woodley

  Knowing, Style, Culture

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

  Delia Smith

  People, Cooking, Missions

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

  Kate Winslet

  Actresses, Toolbox, Persons

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Hard Work, Brain, Different

  Source: www.ew.com

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• The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Acting, Depth, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

  Emma Goldman

  Tunes, Revolution, Vain

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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