"You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun."
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"I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world."
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"I'm not a guy who gets inspirations."
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"We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above."
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"Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet."
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"I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious."
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"They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them"
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"I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there."
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"This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration."
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"There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you."
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"The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it."
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"Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write."
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"Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews."
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"My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort."
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"Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained."
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"I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all."
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"Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again."
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"The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric."
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"All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service."
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"Take care of this moment."
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