Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice."
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Ernest Holmes
Writer
"I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp."
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
Michael Chekhov
Actor, Director
"Real inspired acting is never DOING, it is always HAPPENING"
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
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"I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me."
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"Keep it fun. Don't take it too seriously. At the same time, when you do feel inspired, take it seriously, too."
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"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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"The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him."
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"People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen."
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"Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy."
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"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
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"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet."
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"Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep."
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"I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness."
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"That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is."
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"I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well."
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies."
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"It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world."
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"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."
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"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine."
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"The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth."
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"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results."
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"I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb."
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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
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