"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"Progression not Procrastination"

James, Authentic on inspiration   

"the best way to get something done is to begin."

Unknown, Source on inspiration
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

Picasso, Pablo on inspiration
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"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von on inspiration
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"Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love."

Eliot, George on inspiration   

"Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress."

Disraeli, Benjamin on inspiration
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"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration."

Cicero, Marcus T. on inspiration   

"Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought."

Browning, Robert on inspiration   

"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration."

Bresson, Robert on inspiration
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

Dewey, John on education
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