Inspiration, inspire, or inspired often refers to:
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Artistic inspiration
Inspiration (from the Latin ''inspirare'', meaning "to breathe into") is an unconscious burst of creativity in a literary, musical, or visual art and other artistic endeavours. The concept has origins in both Hellenism and Hebraism. The Greeks ...
, sudden creativity in artistic production
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Biblical inspiration
Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their writings may be designated in some sense the word of God. This belief is traditionally ass ...
, the doctrine in Judeo-Christian theology concerned with the divine origin of the Bible
* Creative inspiration, sudden creativity when a new
invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...
is created
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Inhalation
Inhalation (or Inspiration) happens when air or other gases enter the lungs.
Inhalation of air
Inhalation of air, as part of the cycle of breathing, is a vital process for all human life. The process is autonomic (though there are exceptions ...
, the movement of air into the lungs, breathing in
Inspiration and the like may also refer to:
Places
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Inspiration, Arizona
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Inspiration is a ghost town in Gila County, Arizona, in the United States. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level. Inspiration was the company town for the Inspiration mine.
The old Inspiration townsite is on company prope ...
, a community in the United States of America
Brands and enterprises
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Inspire (fragrance), a fragrance by Christina Aguilera
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Inspiration (car)
Inspiration is a British-designed and -built steam-propelled car designed by Glynne Bowsher and developed by the British Steam Car Challenge team.
Inspiration holds the World Land Speed Record for a steam-powered vehicle on 25 August 2009, drive ...
, a British-designed and built steam-propelled car designed by Glynne Bowsher
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Carnival Inspiration
''Carnival Inspiration'' (formerly ''Inspiration'') was a operated by Carnival Cruise Line. Built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was floated out on April 1, 1996, and christened as ''Inspiration' ...
'', a Fantasy-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line
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Honda Inspire
The is a mid-size sedan introduced by Honda in 1990 derived from Honda Accord chassis. The first Inspire debuted in 1990 as the Accord Inspire, a sister nameplate to the Honda Vigor, but sold at different retail channels in Japan, known as ''Ho ...
, a luxury sedan introduced by Honda in 1990
* Inspiration, a type of diver's rebreather scuba made by
AP Diving
The scuba equipment manufacturer AP Diving or Ambient Pressure Diving, formerly known as A.P.Valves, is at Water-Ma-Trout in Helston, Cornwall, England.
They produce a range of scuba and surface supplied diving equipment including buoyancy compens ...
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Inspire (company), a healthcare social network
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
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''Inspiration'' (1915 film), starring Audrey Munson
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''Inspiration'' (1931 film), starring Greta Garbo
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''Inspiration'' (1948 film), directed by Karel Zeman
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''Inspirations'' (film), a 1997 film directed by Michael Apted
Genres
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Inspirational fiction
Inspirational fiction is a sub-category within the broader categories of "inspirational literature" or "inspirational writing." It has become more common for booksellers and libraries to consider inspirational fiction to be a separate genre, class ...
, a fiction genre
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Inspirational music
Contemporary Christian music, also known as CCM, Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and s ...
, a music genre
Music
Albums
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''Inspiration'' (Aziza Mustafa Zadeh album), 2000
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''Inspiration'' (Cathy Dennis album), 1993
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''Inspiration'' (Eddie Henderson album), 1994
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''Inspiration'' (Elkie Brooks album), 1989
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''Inspiration'' (Jane McDonald album), 2000
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''Inspiration'' (Maze album), 1979
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''Inspiration'' (Shinhwa album), 2006
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''Inspiration'' (Tammy Wynette album), 1969
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''Inspiration'' (William Hung album), 2004
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''Inspiration'' (Yngwie Malmsteen album), 1996
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The Inspiration
''Thug Motivation 102: The Inspiration'' is the fourth studio album by American rapper Young Jeezy. It was released on December 12, 2006, by Corporate Thugz Entertainment (CTE), and Def Jam South Recordings. Production was handled by Shawty Redd ...
'', a 2006 album by Young Jeezy
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''Inspire'' (Casiopea album), 2002
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''Inspire'' (Jack Vidgen album), 2012
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''Inspire'' (La'Mule album), 1998
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''Inspired'' (album), a 2007 album by Lea Salonga
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''Inspirations'' (Saxon album), 2021
Songs
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"Inspire" (song), a 2004 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
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"Inspired" (song), a 2017 song by Miley Cyrus
Periodicals
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''Inspire'' (magazine), an online magazine published by the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda
* ''Inspire'', a quarterly newsletter published by Australian intellectual property firm,
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick (POF) is an Australian Intellectual Property firm. Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has around 140 employees across offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. It also operates directly in New Zealand and Papua New Guin ...
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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''Inspiration'' (sculpture), a 2010 public artwork by American artist Ethan Kerber
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Inspiration FM
Inspiration FM is a community radio station based in Northampton, United Kingdom. It is a community led and managed radio service, providing access, information, entertainment and training, and encourages and promotes a voice for those who are ...
, a community radio station in Northampton, United Kingdom
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The Inspiration Network
INSP (formerly The Inspiration Network; the initialism is sounded out letter-by-letter) is an American digital cable television network that features primarily westerns (both shows and movies) and is headquartered in Indian Land, South Carolina - ...
, a worldwide family and religious cable-television network
Space exploration
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Inspiration4
Inspiration4 (stylized as Inspirati④n) was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. The mission launched the Crew Dragon ''Resilience'' on 16 September 2021 at 00:02:56 UTC from Kennedy Sp ...
, a SpaceX tourism mission chartered by Jared Isaacman
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Space Shuttle ''Inspiration'', a full-scale Space Shuttle mockup
Other
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Inspiration (racehorse), a Hong Kong-based thoroughbred racehorse
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INSPIRE
The following is a thematic list of Directive (European Union), European Union directives:
For a date based list, see the :European Union directives by number
Numbering
From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2014, numbers assigned by the General ...
, acronym for "Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community" directive
*Inspired, a loyalty program tier of SLH (Small Luxury Hotels Worldside), a partner of
Hyatt
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacat ...
's
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ANA Inspiration
The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Fou ...
, the first major championship of the LPGA season in women's golf
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INSPIRE-HEP INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970 ...
, a database of particle physics literature
See also
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Muse
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses ( grc, Μοῦσαι, Moûsai, el, Μούσες, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the ...
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