Uninspiring Quotes

• An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

  Arthur Smith

  Artist, Canvas, Glamorous

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Literature

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• You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

  Robert Reich

  Moving, People, Inspire

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

  Kathleen Turner

  Teenager, Ideas, Icons

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

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• It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Too Late

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• Don't die with your music still inside.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Death, Stills

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 29, 2014

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• The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

  Tony Robbins

  Long, Way, Term

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• It is never too late to be who you want to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

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• Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Attitude, People

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.227, Jaico Publishing House

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• I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

  George V

  May, Aliens, Ifs

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• People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.

  Frank Gehry

  Wall, Office, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, Determination, Adventure

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

  Jim Sturgess

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.

  John I. Jenkins

  Leader, Healthy, Democracy

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

  Allan Nevins

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”

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• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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• The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Effort, Reform

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• Success would be
  a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with
  a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,
  success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

  Chris Murray

  Would Be, Layers, Ingredients

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• Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Inspiration, Past, Progress

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1906). “The Survival of the Unlike: A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants”

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• I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Choices, Imperfect

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

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• I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Children, Sleep, Hair

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.240, Crown Archetype

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• Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.

  Michael Cisco

  Mean, People, Miracle

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• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Art, Truth

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