Quotes of Impulse - somelinesforyou

“ People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness — I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ”

- Aaron Copland

“ What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. ”

- Ovid

“ Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ”

- Ella Fitzgerald

“ The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. ”

- Unknown

“ The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart. ”

- Rodney Yee

“ There's more and more momentum going our way. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ”

- Man Ray

“ Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it. ”

- Unknown

“ There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. ”

- Greta Garbo

“ Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. ”

- George Reisman

“ Why did I want to win? Because I didn't want to lose! ”

- Max Schmelling

“ It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration. ”

- Junius

“ I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. ”

- Virginia Wade

“ Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. ”

- Johann Gottfried Von Herder

“ Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

“ Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Every great inspiration is but an experiment. ”

- Charles Ives

“ Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. ”

- Rudolf Nureyev

“ Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. ”

- Emily Carr

“ When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music. ”

- Ken Hill

“ Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

“ Tyrants are rebels against the first laws of heaven and society: to oppose their ravages is an instinct of nature, the inspiration of God in the heart of man. ”

- Josiah Quincy

“ She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ”

- Stendhal

“ It could have that effect. Our (legislation) would provide an incentive for people to come back. ”

- David Vitter

“ Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. ”

- Brenda Ueland
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