| Quotations on the subject: Inspiration & Motivation |
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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I do not seek, I find.
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Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Don't stay in bed....unless you can make money in bed.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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