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Jose Ortega y Gasset
: Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
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The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
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Madonna Ciccone :
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"It's so inspiring to see her work and she's got some spunk." [79] Cyndi Lauper
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Robert Bresson :
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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
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Alfred Whitney Griswold :
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There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.
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Aaron Copland :
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson :
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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