Quotes about inspiration
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
— Arnold Bennett
The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
— Bible
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
— Robert Bresson
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
— Robert Browning
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.
— William S. Burroughs
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
— Marcus T. Cicero
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
— William Congreve
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
— Aaron Copland
The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
— Comer Cotrell
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.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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.
— George Eliot
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
— William Feather
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
— Johann Gottfried Von Herder
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
— Henry Miller
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.
— Pablo Picasso
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
— Alexander Pope
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
— Cole Porter
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
— Henry David Thoreau
An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
— Source Unknown
the best way to get something done is to begin.
— Source Unknown
Progression not Procrastination
— Authentic James
There can be no forced inspiration.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Regret is not when you could not finish what you started but regret is when you do not start what you could have finished.
— Apoorve Dubey
Mediocrity is always a safe option but never a satisfactory one.
— Apoorve Dubey
The only thing that hurts harder than a failure is not trying.
— Apoorve Dubey
Recognition of the small things in people leads to the development of big things in people.
— A. Brandon Trean
If your thoughts aren't inspiring you, they are expiring you.
— A. Brandon Trean
Do, or Don't; Decide!
— Nabil N. Jamal
I am not perfect. Are you? Let us accept the fact that nobody is perfect. Let us learn to accept our imperfections as well as those of others-RVM
— Source Unknown
Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!-RVM
— Source Unknown
The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!
— Preeth Nambiar
Dance before the music is over. Live before your Life is over. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Do you want to make your Life exciting? Then find a purpose that will make you jump out of bed each day with Enthusiasm, Power and Excitement.-RVM
— Source Unknown
A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it’s all over. Live before you die. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Look at a stonecutter hitting at the rock. Nothing happens at first, but after many strikes, the rock eventually cracks. In Life, don't Doubt. Keep at it and it will happen. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Problems are like Balloons. We let them unnecessarily blow up. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Within us is Energy which when channelized, spirals into Inspiration. -RVM
— Source Unknown
It doesn't cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees. -RVM
— Source Unknown
The minutes will Tick, the days will Pass, the Journey is Ours, Smile while it Lasts.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Everyday there will be an opportunity to Frown or to Smile, to Drown or to Dance, to be Sad or to be Glad. It's a Choice!-RVM
— Source Unknown
FAITH creates Energy that makes Success possible. DOUBT paralyses and makes the possible impossible.-RVM #Inspiration #Stayinspired
— Source Unknown
It’s great to celebrate the birth of our Lord, but greater still is the realization that he is born everyday within the temple of our heart and lives therein with us eternally.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Don’t be amongst those trying to build a better Tomorrow. We can have a better tomorrow only if our Today is better than our Yesterday. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Do you earn for others to burn? Why not GIVE as you LIVE, so that when you die, the world will cry. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Joy and Bliss can come from the little and most unexpected things if only we Program our Mind to enjoy these little things. -RVM
— Source Unknown
The easiest way to grow, is to let Go. Knowing, that someone else is managing the show. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Happy New Year! How can the New Year be happy unless You are Happy? How can the New Year be New unless You are New? Resolve in 2-0-1-6 to be a New You and a Happy You and you will find 2016 to be a Happy New Year!- RVM
— Source Unknown
Decide to be HAPPY when you start your day. Commit to put JOY in whatever comes your way. You may be hurt by what people say, but don't let anyone spoil your Day.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Life is your biggest Treasure. Enjoy it. If you forget to, it will soon be gone, never to return.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Look around you. While dogs bark, birds sing and fly. People will talk; Don’t worry. You just walk- Just Fly! -RVM
— Source Unknown
If you really want more, then cross the door and get to the shore. -RVM
— Source Unknown
It's not Circumstance. It's not Chance. It's the Choice we make that determines the Destiny of Life. -RVM #Inspiration #Stayinspired
— Source Unknown
Would you prefer to drag through life for 100 years or live with excitement for 50? -RVM
— Source Unknown
Worries come and worries go…They challenge us and make us Grow! -RVM
— Source Unknown
Live before the Journey is over, Live before it is too late. LIVE because you deserve to. -RVM
— Source Unknown
You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Dare to share for to Give is to truly Live. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Rather than wasting time on yesterday that is gone, it is better to invest your time in tomorrow that is not yet born. -RVM
— Source Unknown
A problem-free life does not exist. If your life has no problems, you are not truly alive, and that’s a Big problem!-RVM
— Source Unknown
We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is… BUT GOD IS! -RVM
— Source Unknown
If we can be Glad .........But we choose to be Sad, we are MAD! ! !- RVM
— Source Unknown
If you don't like the Fruits you are growing, then change the Seeds you are sowing. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Those who Discover the High Sea are the ones who are FREE to Be what they Want to Be. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Enjoy the Bliss of just Being…Without being dependent on anything! -RVM
— Source Unknown
In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Some people live such boring lives; it’s Black & White, so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some Blue, some Green, some Red. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Birds fly in the sky without the fear of fall. We too must have the Courage to take Risks and grow tall.-RVM
— Source Unknown
Today is a tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. Don't worry about tomorrow. Take care of today because if you take care of today tomorrow will take care of itself. - RVM
— Source Unknown
The Attitude of Gratitude can raise your Altitude. Being Thankful is a magical way to reach the Top.-RVM
— Source Unknown
I am the Richest man on earth because I am the Happiest man on earth. After all, isn’t Happiness the Greatest Wealth in Life? -RVM
— Source Unknown
It may be a Mountain or a Tree, a River or a Bee . . . learn to enjoy the little things in Life. -RVM
— Source Unknown
Instead of trying to understand Life, we must live it. Create a reason to Live and progress on that path every day.-RVM
— Source Unknown
How much you achieve in Life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of Life.-RVM
— Source Unknown