Sigmund Freud Quotes
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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Why's it gotta be Ôtani for me? I don't know because I have way too many reasons to choose from! He's the one for me, that's all. He just is.
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A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
