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Quotes of the Day for 12 May 2004 - Inspiration

Inspiration. I need some, urgently. So, I'm off to the ocean in hopes of digging a little up.

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
     - Albert E. Cliffe

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
     - Ben Nicholas

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
     - Brenda Ueland

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
     - Honoré de Balzac, 1799 - 1850

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

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