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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration.
 ~wise inspiration sayings by Robert Bresson

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
 ~saying by Richard Kemph

If genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, I wind up sharing elevators with a lot of bright people
 ~inspirational quote on Humor by Randy Gilbert

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.
 ~good quotes about Goals of Rita Mae Brown

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
 ~famous sayings on Conformity by Vincent Van Gogh

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
 ~motivational quotations on Action by Brendan Francis

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
 ~wise inspiration sayings by Frank Tibolt

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
 ~saying by Ernest Newman

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
 ~saying by Joseph de Maistre

Learning is directly proportional to the amount of fun you are having
 ~inspirational quote on Entertainment by Rob Pike

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
 ~good quotes about Heartache of From the television show The Wonder Years

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
 ~famous sayings on Experience. by Samuel Butler, Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 February 1895

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
 ~motivational quotations on Experience. by Laurence J. Peter

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
 ~wise learning sayings by Chinese Proverb

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
 ~saying by Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

Don’t waste time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade.
 ~inspirational quote on Goals by Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future
 ~good quotes about Future of Euripides

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother - and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.
 ~motivational quotations on Brothers by Winston Pendelton

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
 ~wise baby sayings by Author Unknown

The husband who doesn’t tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn’t know won’t hurt him.
 ~saying by Leo J. Burke

[T]elevision’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don’t have to concentrate. You don’t have to react. You don’t have to remember. You don’t miss your brain because you don’t need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man’s nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn’t got the price of a television set.
 ~inspirational quote on Television by Raymond Chandler

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
 ~saying by David G. Myers, Social Psychology

Changing our thoughts and attitudes requires effort. But anything that doesn’t require effort isn’t worth having.
 ~inspirational quote on Attitude by

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.
 ~good quotes about Attitude of Kathleen Turner

Success comes oftener through right attitude than great ability. Several companies were going under through lack of money. They hired consultants who points out theirs problem was not a money problem, but an idea problem. New ideas saved them.
 ~famous sayings on Success by

Excellence is not a skillIt is an attitude
 ~motivational quotations on Graduation by Ralph Marston

Never neglect the power of heroic words to generate strength and power. Daily repeat words of power, strength, courage, self-confidence, success. Words set the tone of mind. They dictate our thoughts, our acts, our attitudes, and our habits – lives and fortunes.
 ~wise attitude sayings by

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
 ~saying by Elbert Hubbard

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.  ~Charles Schulz

* ‘Whenever you get knocked down in the game of life, immediately get up, get better and get going again.’
Greg Hickman

* ‘Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!’
Henry Ford

* ‘Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose!’
Max Schmelling

* ‘Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should accomplish with your ability.’
John Wooden

* ‘If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?’
Vince Lombardi

* ‘The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.’
Tommy Lasorda

“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”

- Sheryl Swoopes

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

- Billie Jean King

“Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old.”

- Lisa Leslie

“It ain’t over ’til it’s over”

- Yogi Berra

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”

- Bo Jackson

I liked the choreography, but I didn’t care for the costumes.  ~Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.  ~Phil Jackson

Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.  ~Ogden Nash

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?  ~Woody Allen, Annie Hall

We have a great bunch of outside shooters.  Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.  ~Weldon Drew

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.  ~Erma Bombeck

If you’re mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway.  It’s about the same.  ~Bob Golic

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.  ~George Plimpton

Baseball players are smarter than football players.  How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?  ~Jim Bouton

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.  ~Author Unknown

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs.  That’s baseball as it should be played - in God’s own sunshine.  And that’s really living.  ~Alvin Dark

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it’s beginning to seem that way.  We’re reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life.  Take your pick.  ~Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 13 April 1990

This is a game to be savored, not gulped.  There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.  ~Bill Veeck

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.  ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970