“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”
Inspired feeling
Inspired Quotes — page 67 of 313
“We change whether we like it or not.”
“The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.”
“Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.”
“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
“I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.”
“As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.”
“I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.”
“Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.”
“I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.”
“Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.”
“I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.”
“In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.”
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.”
“The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.”
“The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day.”
“I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.”
“I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.”
“Learning from other people is what music is all about.”
“There's no repentance in the grave.”