Every great inspiration is but an experiment…

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

–Tony Robbins (b. 1960)

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

–Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 – 1904)

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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

–Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

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Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

–Charles Ives (1874 – 1954)

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

–José Ortega y Gasset (1883 – 1955)

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Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label ‘inspiration’.

–Norman Lindsay (1879 – 1969)

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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

–Benjamin Cardozo (1870 – 1938)

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It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

–Ray Bradbury (1920 – 2012)

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

–Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

–Eileen Caddy (1917 – 2006)