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“I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.”

Thinking Knows Want Mother Artist Creating Unhappy Frustrated

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.”

People Creating Expectations Resources Blame Impression Limited Resources

Author:Kofi Annan

“I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door and invite you to be a part of something like this, you say yes. It truly is an honor to work with them, particularly on a project as large as this one. The story of how they came to me is a good lesson though about the unexpected and creating new opportunities.”

Stories Opportunity Doors Honor Lessons Projects Creating Presses University Unexpected Invites Invited Oxford New Opportunity Prestigious Oxford University

Author:Patricia Leavy

“Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like.”

People Thinking Ideas Different Beautiful Sex Style Drug Creating Hip Hop Storytelling Hips Being Yourself Hops Different Styles Creating Music

Author:Rapsody

“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.”

World Way Kind Different Sometimes Earth Form Certain Groups Conditions Materials Creating Patterns Architecture Authenticity Relevant Nobility Scarce Textiles Materiality Hybridity

Author:David Adjaye

“If you think the memories of the past too much, you will miss creating the new ones!”

Ifs Thinking Past Memories Too Much Missing Creating Past Memories

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Little details have special talents in creating big problems!”

Littles Problem Bigs Special Talent Creating Details Big Problems Special Talents

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.”

Kind Light Able Darkness Virtue Creating

Author:Jeremiah Burroughs

“Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.”

Opportunity Challenges Space Creating Competition Stakes Emerging Creating The Future

Book:Competing for the Future

Source: Competing for the Future

“Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.”

Want Mean Enough Jobs Economic Creating Gains Majority Sells Customers Corporations Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Robert Reich

“This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.”

World Humans Challenges Environment Creating Pressure Crowded Unprecedented Human Society Interconnected Interconnected World

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.”

Eye Language Lines Break Creating Connections Ears Add Narrative Prose Units Emphasis Prosody

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.”

People Belief Creating Clever Insane Very Clever

Author:PZ Myers

“Real power is creating stuff.”

Real Stuff Creating Real Power

Author:Geraldine Laybourne

“Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.”

Men Joy Acting Eternal Creating Function Each Day Torment

Author:Le Corbusier

“Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.”

Hard Individual Creating Standards High Standards

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.”

World May Seems Form Humanity Economy Materials Creating Fairs Connections Rewards Creator Goods Bent Utility Predictable Eliminating World Economy

Author:John Perry Barlow

“I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.”

Way Persons Different Perception Creating Photography Traditional Angle Cartoon Twists Caricatures Satirical Different Perceptions

Author:Alison Jackson

“We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.”

World Children Kids Sex Responsibility Struggle This World Creating Adults Dignity Our Children Sexuality Honestly Fallen Consent

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.”

“An incredible advertising career is not about creating an incredibly amazing ad, it's about making an incredible amazing ad every single day of your career, it's about getting those adds killed, and resurrecting them over and over again. It's about your season average not that occasional home-run.”

Home Running Careers Creating Seasons Add Incredibles Average Advertising Ads Occasional Home Run

Author:Lee Clow

“It is through your presence that creates your reality. What am I creating? I am a co-creator.”

Reality Creating Creator Your Presence

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.”

Ifs Thinking States Beautiful Life Is Creating Beautiful Things Touring

Author:Lou Reed

“Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.”

Kind Real Realizing Creating Instruments University Financial Profit Chicago Engineering Ceo Blinded Mit Samson

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.”

Moving Values Games Creating Making Money Goods Back And Forth Acquisition Mergers

Author:Akio Morita

“Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.”

Play Language Roles Creating Underestimate Pretension Never Underestimate

Author:George Carlin

“Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.”

Art Voice Painting Creating Concepts Spending Cinema Pleasant Sheer Committees Location Geography Antidote Creating Art Downtime

Author:Billy Zane

“There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.”

“The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.”

Years Character Challenges Interesting Numbers Rich Creating Following Warrants

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.”

Ifs Way Children Ideas Whole Character Creating Backgrounds Pertinent

Author:Maria Bello

“I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.”

Ifs Thinking Way Fall Challenges Quality Changed Materials Creating Dramatic Programming Marketplace

Author:Colin Callender

“My deal is to understand: you trust me, I trust you. It's a two-way street. Developing that happens over time. It's hard. I look forward to that. I look forward to being a part of these guys' lives. This isn't just about ball. This is about creating a brand for yourself. This is about setting you apart for the rest of your life. That's kind of been how I do it. I look forward to being involved in these guys' lives. Part of that is winning some ballgames. I've got a blueprint on how that works, yet every place is different, so you need to adjust the blueprint based on what's there.”

“I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around a character and bringing him to life. I love a lot of different genres. I'm not a big horror guy by any means but I love the challenge. But the fifties and sixties is where I feel the most comfortable.”

Thinking Feels Mean Different Character Bigs Guy Challenges Acting Horror Comfortable Creating Genre Sixty Wrapping Different Genres

Author:Drew Waters

“I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.”

Way Firsts Done Character Cost Creating Conscience Areas

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I started with that. When I was creating the series, I just started with that tone, and that edge, and it just kept going.”

Firsts Book Creating Adults Series Edges Comic Tone Comic Book Daredevil

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.”

Ifs Want Beautiful Certain Process Growth Creating Something Beautiful

Author:Arca

“I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.”

Years Wells Used Artist Night Next Individual Comedy Greater Groups Television Grew Drama Creating Grew Up Theater Contribution One Night Good Relationship Creating Something

Author:Howard Shore

“Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.”

Earth Rich Bears Creating Difficulty Misery

Book:The Threepenny Opera

Source: The Threepenny Opera

“Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.”

States Hands Reality Might Literature Individual Community Views Genius Creating Rage Plot Virginia Monologues Composites Woolf

Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.”

Doe Self Moments Helping Conditions Divine Creating Slave Guides Self Centered Divine Nature

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.”

Thinking Art I Can Able Dies Next Creative Expression Creating Things To Do Creative Expression Better Things To Do Creating Yourself

Author:Robert Redford

“Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.”

Causes Space Creating Architecture Disaster Architect Masterpiece

Author:Jean Nouvel

“I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.”

Found Results Comedy Stupid Creating Jokes Premises Realised Stupid Jokes

Author:Mel Brooks

“That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.”

Giving Writing Kind Soul Lying Imagination Events Findings Creating Tired Treasure Worn Sparkle Worn Out Invigorating Hidden Treasure

Author:Isabel Allende

“The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.”

Needs Firsts Products Revolution Creating News Percent Spread Evangelists

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.”

World Believe Stories Use Order Next I Believe Process Stage Information Evolution Creating Ultimate Method Patterns Our World Processing Epoch Information Processing

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'”

Way Writing Together Song Differences Listening Findings Creating Invites Listeners Participation Didactic

Author:Peter Yarrow

“The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing that no longer fragments the observer from what's observed; a new capacity for stillness that no longer fragments who we really are from what's emerging; and a new capacity for creating alternative realities that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart and hand.”

Heart Hands Reality Three Building Theory Creating Capacity Alternatives Stillness Observers Fragments Observing Emerging Integrated Integrating Hearts And Hands

Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

“The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.”

People May Roles Creating Organization Contact Telephones Operators

Author:Guy Kawasaki

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