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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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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Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Jack London (1876 - 1916)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
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Frank Tibolt

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.
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Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
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William Arthur Wood
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
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Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
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Lorraine Anderson
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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