Very Inspiring Quotes

• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Inspiring, Discovery, Invention

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• The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

  Saskia de Brauw

  People, Giving, Positive Energy

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• To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

  Natan Sharansky

  Struggle, Thinking, Kgb

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• Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Inspiring, Creative, Albums

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• I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

  "A Mission To Mars". Interview with David Levin, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

  Shawn Colvin

  Play, Wells

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• I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Risk

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• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Dramatic, Lashes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Film, Found, Approach

  "Kathryn Bigelow: Director with a different take" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2009.

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• What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

  Alanis Morissette

  Moving, Two, Pills

  "The Hot Seat: Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.timeout.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

  Donatella Versace

  Hollywood

  "Donatella conquers her demons". www.cnn.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Well your mom was right, in a way. What do you mean? He DID fall, right? So he wasn’t safe on the stool. Thanks, Annette. Thanks a lot. That’s exactly what I needed to hear right now. You’re a very inspiring person, you know that?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Fall, Mean

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Independent, Hands

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• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  Laura Carmichael

  Teacher, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

  John Steinbeck

  Kings, Hero, Writing

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.21, Penguin

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• Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Spring, Fall, Years

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• It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

  Brian McKnight

  Art, Matter, Type

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• You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have declared every gain to be a trick of the capitalist class to buy us off. That line isn't very inspiring, and it shows no sensitivity to how social movements actually succeed.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Struggle, Class, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.

  Christina Grimmie

  Men, Genius, Way

  Source: www.maximumpop.co.uk

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• Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

  Brooke Burns

  Beautiful, Stars, Sky

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