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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.

Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.