Teju Cole Quotes

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Beginning

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• Craft is part of the creative process.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Craft

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Friends
  • Listening
  • Creative

• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Science
  • Creative
  • Will

• I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Creative

• Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Powerful
  • Magic
  • Creative

• I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Dream
  • Energy
  • Creative

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • World
  • Creative
  • Just

• For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creative

• Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Very

• I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

  

  Jeff Abbott
  • Live
  • Creative
  • Lucky

• The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

  

  R. Keith Sawyer
  • World
  • Looks
  • Creative

• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Question
  • Worship

• There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

  

  Harry Vardon
  • Control
  • Nerves
  • Championships

• I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Perfect

• The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

  

  Teju Cole
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