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Inspirational Quotes
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
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"You never fail until you stop trying."
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"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."
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"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration."
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"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
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"For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration."
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"The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities."
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"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
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"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
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"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
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"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
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"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
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"I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it."
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"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"Life is simple and beautiful."
"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."
"Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration."
"Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty."
"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."
"Like a child, always enjoy the world."
"Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now."
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
"After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration."
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."
"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
"Life is meant to create memories not money."
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
"Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it."
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss."
"Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage."
"Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end."
"You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony."
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