Sigmund Freud Quotes

Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

Sigmund Freud

• Imagination
• Creativity
• Dreams
• Desires
• Impulses

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Bread

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Writer

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Process

• I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Imagination
  • Profound
  • Deserted

• An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool...

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Imagination
  • Artists
  • Tool

• Paloma you cry out, you beg for connection The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction

  

  Barry Privett
  • Dreams
  • Connection
  • Direction

• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Dreams