Sparks Quotes - Page 18

• Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.

  Earl Thomas

  Inspiration, Giving, Needs

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• It's a huge assortment that we have under our roof and I don't know, it's just managing a taste level and execution of a vision. I think our team does as incredible job at it but it takes incredible leadership and I'm only really a spark for all of that. I'm not out there at every trade show, and so having an amazing team that can keep that vision month after month and keep the assortment consistent is a huge challenge. But something I think we execute every well.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Jobs, Team, Thinking

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Prayer, Real, Heaven

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “The Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death”, p.57, Nilgiri Press

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• In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wall, Creative, Solitude

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Creativity, Fire, Orthodoxy

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.100, Heinemann

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• Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

  James Merrick

  Conceited, Talking, Proud

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• I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

  Burt Reynolds

  Dad, School, Night

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

  Drew Goddard

  Inspiration, Careers, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.

  Bill Moyers

  Fighting, Nuts, Blue

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Past, Thinking

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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• Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

  Malcolm X

  House, Kegs, Powder

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I use my platform to try and encourage and spark the next entrepreneur, or spark the next female millionaire.

  2 Chainz

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Next

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

  Christopher Camuto

  Spiritual, Dark, Rivers

  Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.

  Lord Acton

  Knowledge, Passion, Science

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Often Can, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

  Jim Steinman

  Cutting, Light, Knives

  Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Flames, Soul

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• I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

  Paul Bloom

  Thinking, Empathy, Moral

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

  Anthony Trollope

  Eye, Light, House

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.36, 谷月社

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• The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

  Walter Benjamin

  Winning, Past, Enemy

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Children, Passion, Desire

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• There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, May, Matter

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.129, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.

  Shauna Niequist

  Art, Fall, Winter

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