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• When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

  Judy Collins

  Letting Go, Return, Doe

  "Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs" by Alex J. Packer, (p. 213), 2006.

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

  Helen Keller

  Softball, Faith, Light

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.60, Matthew Gordon

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• Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Life, Change, Travel

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• If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Victory, Self Improvement

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

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• If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Eye

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• The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Believe, Decisions We Make

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking

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  The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

  Arnold Palmer

  Graduation, Golf, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

  Brenda Ueland

  Solitude, Littles, Prime

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• I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

  Brenda Ueland

  Creativity, Creating, Giving

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

  John Updike

  Literature, Materials

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• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Faith, Morning, Past

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• Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Motivation

  "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.

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• But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yesterday

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Faith, Teacher, Jobs

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• A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Errors, Working It

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 12, 2014

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• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.158

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• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Business, Inspirational Life, Goal

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.145, Bantam

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