Inspire Quotes - Page 35

• Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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• Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

  Warren Farrell

  Husband, Men, Addiction

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

  Louis C. K.

  Selfish, Kids, Want

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview With Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Strong, Writing, Character

  "Kyle MacLachlan on INSIDE OUT, the Diversity of His Characters, TWIN PEAKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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• That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Want, Able, Music Is

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Compassion, Dedication

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• So let God know what you're doing just by doing it - or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good - because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

  Ysabella Brave

  Letting Go, Men, Imperfection

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

  Philippe Kahn

  Flutes, Something New, Decades

  Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.

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• Big L is my favorite rapper of all time. He got killed quite a few years ago now but I think he's amazing and he kind of inspires me like his style inspires me. I don't think there's been anyone better since. I mean, Biggie Smalls is definitely on the top of the list but Big L is like the underdog, I like to give him the edge.

  Andy Milonakis

  Mean, Thinking, Rapper

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• As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Want, Roles, Older Women

  "Angels and demons" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

  Hans Finzel

  Leader, Goes On, Great Leader

  Hans Finzel (2013). “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make”, p.17, David C Cook

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• This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Education, Light, Wire

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, People, Energy

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• You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Ideas, Needs, Able

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• First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. It let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people, and I realize that.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Mvp, Order

  "Durant's Emotional MVP Acceptance Speech: 'I'd Like to Thank God for Changing My Life'" by Eric Corpus, www.christianpost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Police, Atheism, World

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.268, Princeton University Press

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• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Passion, Giving

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Thinking, Civilization

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Beauty, Sadness, Feelings

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• What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.

  G-Eazy

  Dream, Successful, People

  Source: thesource.com

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• New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Stuff, Firsts

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

  Rudolf Steiner

  May, Creation

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• he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397

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