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“I never started from ideas but always from character.”
Ivan Turgenev
Writing
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Character
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Creativity
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Inspiration
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Process
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“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also.”
Ivan Turgenev
Poetry
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Beauty
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Nature
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Life
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Inspiration
3.
“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.”
John D. Rockefeller
Faith
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Bible
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Guidance
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Inspiration
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Religion
4.
“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.”
John D. Rockefeller
Christianity
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Faith
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Blessings
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Devotion
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Inspiration
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“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
Happiness
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Goals
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Motivation
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Success
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Inspiration
6.
“Evangelism is selling a dream.”
Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism
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Marketing
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Influence
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Persuasion
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Inspiration
7.
“Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.”
Guy Kawasaki
Inspiration
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Impact
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Connections
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Motivation
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Networking
8.
“When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.”
Guy Kawasaki
Leadership
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Management
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Education
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Inspiration
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Reality
9.
“The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I’ve never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.”
Guy Kawasaki
Experience
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Inspiration
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Passion
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Innovation
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Impact
10.
“The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.”
Guy Kawasaki
Inspiration
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Motivation
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Action
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Influence
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Communication
11.
“I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That’s kind of silly. “Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?” “Yeah, I did, and you know what – that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!””
Mitch Hedberg
Movies
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Inspiration
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Humor
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Satire
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Perspective
12.
“Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.”
Charles Lamb
Food
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Inspiration
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Simplicity
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Nature
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Mood
13.
“The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.”
Charles Lamb
Muses
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Apollo
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Silence
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Knowledge
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Inspiration
14.
“Truth is the nursing mother of genius.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Genius
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Knowledge
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Inspiration
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Wisdom
15.
“When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.”
Margaret Fuller
Intellect
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Harmony
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Inspiration
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Affection
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Wisdom
16.
“It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.”
Steven Wright
Reading
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Writing
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Creativity
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Inspiration
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Process
17.
“George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.”
Steven Wright
Comedy
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Influence
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Inspiration
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George Carlin
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Passion
18.
“I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.”
Steven Wright
Comedy
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Inspiration
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Dreams
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Performance
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Television
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“When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.”
Steven Wright
Comedy
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Influence
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TV
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Inspiration
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Legacy
20.
“My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.”
Steven Wright
Books
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Inspiration
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Writing
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Literature
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Memory
21.
“A powerful quote at the right time can change your life.”
Ankur Warikoo
Quotes
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Timing
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Impact
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Inspiration
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Change
22.
“Don't leave inspiration to chance.”
Ankur Warikoo
Inspiration
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Effort
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Intention
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Action
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Creativity
23.
“Show people who they can be. Instead of telling them who they shouldn't be.”
Ankur Warikoo
Inspiration
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Guidance
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Positivity
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Influence
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Potential
24.
“If you are listening, you will never run out of ideas.”
Ankur Warikoo
Listening
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Creativity
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Ideas
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Inspiration
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Attention
25.
“One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.”
Jimmy Carter
History
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Leadership
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Nation
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Inspiration
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Legacy
26.
“I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.”
Jimmy Carter
Nature
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Peace
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God
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Inspiration
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Universe
27.
“Small things start us in new ways of thinking.”
V.S. Naipaul
Ideas
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Change
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Inspiration
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Perspective
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Growth
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“Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.”
V.S. Naipaul
Inspiration
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Perspective
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Change
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Observation
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Discovery
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“My favorite movie is ‘Forrest Gump.’ He said nobody makes money catching whales, people make money catching shrimps. So we serve small business.”
Jack Ma
Business
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Inspiration
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Movies
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Entrepreneurship
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Mindset
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“I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.”
Jack Ma
Inspiration
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Movies
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Perseverance
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Mindset
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Motivation
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