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Aaron Copland (top)
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.
- Aaron Copland


Thomas Alva Edison (top)
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison


Jack London (top)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London


Socrates (top)
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates


Frank Tibolt (top)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt