Uninspired Quotes

• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired

  Richard Kemp

  Life, Uplifting, Inspiration

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• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sick, Lazy, Persons

  "See You at the Top". Book by Zig Ziglar, 2000.

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• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

  Shaun Tan

  Block, Inspiration, Thinking

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, Interesting, Voodoo

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• To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

  David O. McKay

  Ignorance, Ignorant, States

  "Pathways To Happiness". Book by David O. McKay, pp. 351-352, 1957.

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• They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Latin, Humble

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• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Down And, Force

  "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15 2012.

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• There are times when I feel uninspired and I don't want to compose. I call these my 'bewitched' periods. I have to be touched with a magic wand.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Magic, Want, Wands

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• To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Doe, Literature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Your Children, Habit

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Heaven, Soul

  "Paperweight". Book by Stephen Fry, 1992.

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• If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

  Ken Rockwell

  Phones, Cameras, Needs

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• The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives.

  John Friend

  Color, Creative Juices, People

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• I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.

  Dayna Devon

  Workout, Class, Clothes

  "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Patience, Buddhist, Practice

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• The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Thinking, Church

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

  Norman Cousins

  Education, Hurt, Unique

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• I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Moving, Tired, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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