Creative Quotes
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
David Starkey -
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
Judy Blume -
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.
Terence McKenna -
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
Nelson Algren -
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf -
I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
David Crabb -
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self
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The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.
Ernest Holmes -
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Missy Elliott -
What makes economies successful is creative ideas.
Shaun Bailey -
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.
Stephen Covey -
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
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Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
Wil Wheaton -
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.
Rhona Mitra -
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift -
According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.
David Bornstein -
The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
Judy Blume -
I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
Missy Elliott -
The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.
Carrie-Anne Moss -
I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
Dan Mangan