Inspiration Quotes - Page 38

• Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

  Stanwood Cobb

  Creativity, Greatness, Careers

  Stanwood Cobb (1967). “The importance of creativity”

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• I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

  Kofi Annan

  School, Boys, Men

  "Kofi Annan discusses Bolton, scandal, Iraq". Interview with Barbara Slavin, www.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Looks, Revolution

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• Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Sorry, Feelings

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• For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Waiting, Firsts, Minutes

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• Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Healing

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.

  Klaus Kleinfeld

  Jobs, Successful, Secure

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• The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial spirits. Music was used as the bridge between these planes. Thus we see why music was religious in nature, and music was looked upon as a sacred art.

  Corinne Heline

  Religious, Art, Healing

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• Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spirit, Contemplation, Music Is

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• The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

  Ambrose

  Spiritual, Illumination, Alertness

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• If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

  Isabel dos Santos

  Believe, Lines, Way

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• What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mind, Body, Contemplation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

  Bart Conner

  Achievement, Consistent, Enjoyment

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• I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Believe, Musical, Earth

  "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard".

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• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Mean, Healing, Passion

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• Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Sight, Chinese

  Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”

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• There is the cause for pleasure and for pain:
  But music moves us, and we know not why?
  We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
  Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory!
  For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world,
  Like music！

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Memories, Other Worlds

  "The Poetical Works of Miss Landon".

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• The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

  Frances Densmore

  Dream, Song, Communication

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• All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art. Their compositions contain specific messages brought through from high realms for the definite purpose of bettering world conditions and bestowing upon mankind greater illumination.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Illumination, Musical

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• I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sea, Sight

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

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• Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Giving, Trying

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• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Science, Numbers, Accomplishment

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• We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Spiritual, Teaching, Order

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• Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

  Jacques Attali

  Judging, Sound, Contemplation

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• It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function

  Christian B. Anfinsen

  Creating, Molecules, Lines

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