Inspired Quotes - Page 9

• Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

  Tom Turner

  Garden, Cities, World

  Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.4, Taylor & Francis

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• I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

  Daniel Lopatin

  Space, Creating, Sculpture

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• For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.

  Erik Johansson

  Photography, Ideas, Goal

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• Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Life Changing, Opportunity, College

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• From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

  Jeremy Lin

  Jesus, Ideas, People

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.

  Lori Earley

  Symbolism, Atmosphere, Fusion

  Artist Statement, www.loriearley.com.

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• I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Ideas, Feels

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• To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.

  Robert Grudin

  Art, Inspiration, Creativity

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Gambling

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• I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

  Brad Delson

  Band, Mates, Ingenuity

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life And Love, Cheerful, Life Is

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• I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Depth, Find Me

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• I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Greatness, Way

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.6, University of Arkansas Press

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• The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

  Jacques Barzun

  Battle, Genius, Creation

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

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• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Kids, Novelists

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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• I'm always being inspired .

  Boy George

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• I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

  Lucinda Williams

  Ideas, Worry, Ifs

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

  John Lahr

  Dames, Comedy, Comic

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• In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

  Tracy Kidder

  Design, Brain, Giants

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

  Anwar Sadat

  Love Is, Community, Individuality

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• I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Opportunity, Thinking

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