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The greatest
inspiration is often born of desperation.
-- Comer Cotrell
American Businessman, Founder
of Pro-Line Corporation
Had it not
been for you, I should have remained what I was when we
first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with
contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life
on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege
of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Most of us who
turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening
hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried
volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker,
or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices
within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
The torpid
artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice,
by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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Here is the
secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens
of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly
no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered
problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
-- William Feather
1888-18, American Writer,
Businessman
Without
inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they
is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
-- Johann Gottfried Von
Herder
1744-1803, German Critic and
Poet
I didn't have
to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all
given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I
would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's
say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on
the balcony. Nothing doing!
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
The artist is
a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place:
from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a
passing shape, from a spider's web.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
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