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Ignite Your Inner Spark.
Inspiration is the spark that ignites creativity and passion, a sudden surge of clarity and motivation that propels us to act, create, or strive for something greater than ourselves. It's meaningful because it fuels innovation, gives purpose to our endeavors, and connects us to a deeper sense of meaning and fulfillment, ultimately shaping our personal growth and contribution to the world.
# Inspiration & Themes
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Context: • Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Hunter, Terrapin Station (1977); "Lady With a Fan".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair”
— Unknown
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Context: • Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (1950).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Joe Satriani, As quoted in Guitar Magazine (March 1990).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free (1988).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Hunter, Terrapin Station (1977); "Lady With a Fan".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair”
— Unknown
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Context: • Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (1950).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Joe Satriani, As quoted in Guitar Magazine (March 1990).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free (1988).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Robert Hunter, Terrapin Station (1977); "Lady With a Fan".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done”
— Unknown
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Context: • Suman Pokhrel, Between Rainbow and Melody
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Helen Hanson, in "For Writers" (14 July 2010).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sanu Sharma, Tee Saat Din
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Taliesin, The Tale of Taleisin.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me
and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...”
— Unknown
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Context: • Jack London (1876 - 1916) 'Getting into Print', first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine.
• often paraphrased; You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• often paraphrased; You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy blog; "The mainstreaming of crazy" (8 September 2009).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913); Jnana.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Amy Tan, as quoted in A Small Drop of Ink : A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages (2003) by Linda Pendleton, p. 129.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit, Genius, iii.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Lois McMaster Bujold Young Miles (1997), "Author's Afterword".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better — when you can get it.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Judy Collins, as quoted in Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs (2006) by Alex J. Packer, p. 213.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Grandma Moses, As quoted in her obituary in The New York Times (14 December 1961).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edgar Degas, Quoted by Walter Sickert in "Post-Impressionism and Cubism," Pall Mall Gazette (1914-03-11). According to Sickert, Degas had said this to him in 1885.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Inspiration" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author.)
“Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.”
— Unknown
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