“When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.” PeopleWorldAbleSpecialSucceedCreatingRealmsSpecial Things Author:David Selby
“I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.” IfsWantFeelsBelieveSometimesHardPlayWholeAbleBitsCreatingGuitarHonestlyToneSpectrumLaid Back Author:Angus Young
“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.” MeanArtAbleArtistCreativityTechnologyCreatingPainterEfficientPrimitiveIngeniousFamous ArtistCreating New Things Author:Kazimir Malevich
“What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.” PeopleDoneAbleJobsOpportunityStuffPossibilityCreatingAccessConsistentlyWages Author:Barack Obama
“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.” IfsNeedsImportantPlayAbleGamesLostHalfSpecialBalanceCreatingVideoOne HalfLost Ones Author:Hidetaka Suehiro
“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.” KindI CanCharacterHelpingBigsAbleJobsStuffFocusOne ThingListeningFindingsCreatingHelp MeConsistentListening To MusicPaletteHeadphones Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.” CountryAbleHousePiecesDoorsCreatingPropertyWelcomeOwnership Author:George W. Bush
“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.” BelieveArtPlayUseAbleActorsI BelieveWrittenCreatingI Believe InTheatreWorks Of ArtPlaywriting Book:On the Art of the Theatre Source: On the Art of the Theatre
“I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.” ThinkingSelfFactsAbleCreativityOur LivesApproachCreatingMereActive Author:Jessica Tandy
“One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.” PeopleThinkingReasonAblePayTechnologyProgressCreatingDeeperDebtHolesNervousDiggingNew Technology Author:Peter Thiel
“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either” AbleActionChoicesNamesChallengesProduceCreatingTasksHeavyEgyptMagicianFrogsSpursHeathenFree ChoiceTauntingLice Book:Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation Source: Luther and Erasmus: free will and salvation
“What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.” PeopleWantFeelsEndsStoriesAbleFilmArtistActorsOpportunityWinningRealizingCreativeSuccessfulCreatingIndependentYeahFinancialActressesProducersBeing SuccessfulThe End Of The DayCreative PeopleIndependent FilmWin WinFinancial SuccessActors And Actresses Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.” WorldHumansImportantRealSelfAbleCan DoHuman BeingsAbilityQualityAwarenessJudgingPrideConfidenceCreatingBlindFaultsIntelligenceGoodSelf ConfidenceContributionRealisticReducingGood QualitySelf TransformationSelf Efficacy Author:Dalai Lama
“Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.” WayNeedsAbleVisionRiskSpecialPossibilityReadyDevelopmentCreatingTablesEntrepreneurMeetingsPatientMarketingCaringCriticalEnormousEnterpriseAlsRisk-takingCaring For OthersCreating SomethingTreating Patients Author:Tony Robbins
“Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.” PeopleThinkingHelpingUseAbleJobsOpportunityCompanyTechnologyProductsCreatingDifficultyEntrepreneurEmployeeGet OverNew JobNew Opportunity Author:Anousheh Ansari
“I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldTryingHumansLooksAbleFunHuman BeingsApproachCreatingInstinctDrivenHaving FunExcitementPlunge Author:Jack Nicholson
“I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.” WantAbleTelevisionFameProjectsCreating Author:Criss Angel
“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.” KindLightAbleDarknessVirtueCreating Author:Jeremiah Burroughs
“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.” ThinkingArtI CanAbleDiesNextCreativeExpressionCreatingThings To DoCreative ExpressionBetter Things To DoCreating Yourself Author:Robert Redford
“I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.” IfsHardMightAbleLanguageUnderstandingVoiceCreatingProfoundHard TimesVocalEnglish LanguageUnderstanding MyselfVocal Music Author:Arca
“The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.” AbleValuesRichKeysCreatingLaborFruitBeing RichCreating SomethingKey To Happiness Author:Arthur C. Brooks
“You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.” IfsWayShouldYearsDoneAbleLastsMotherFatherForceBlackCommunityJusticeLossCasesSonDrugCreatingDaughterConcernedOrganizationAbuseMurderPoliceBrownOffensePolice BrutalityBrutalityRepresentingMistrustAbuse Of PowerSon And DaughterPolice ForceBusting Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.” IfsWayPersonsMightAbleCreationLetting GoCreatingBlameIllness Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsShouldFirstsWellsKindPersonsBookAbleEnergySpaceProductsOffersCreatingModelsBasesFilledStoresFeel GoodWell BeingTapePresentingHigh Energy Author:Wayne Dyer
“I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.” TryingStillsAbleWantedChoicesEnjoyLosesJourneyShareCollegeBalanceHealthyBenefitsCreatingDirectDifficultyIncludingLifestyleTricksPoundsHealthy LifestyleFood LoveCollege LifeNew RelationshipLifestyle ChoicesCollege Experience Author:Daphne Oz
“As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.” WantHumansMayDifferentAbleActionEarthFormCommunityPlanetsCreatingClimateClimate ChangeAcceptedErasHuman LifeOrganizedTolerateHuman Actions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.” ThinkingWayLooksMightTodayAbleAmericaBlackAbilityColdCreatingDrivenCynicalBlack AmericaPersonal Love Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.” MenWellsHas BeensReasonWholeAbleLiteratureRoomsExistenceAcceptingPaintingCreatingPainterIdeologyDefinedVarietyDeniedDominantVirginiaWoolf Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.” ThinkingWayHomeAbleValuesCreatingInvisibleMetaphysicalTurtlesWherever You AreSnail Author:Pico Iyer
“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.” WorldShouldBelieveArtAbleHumanityI BelieveResponsibilityCreativityInfluenceMankindEffectsCreatingHumanitarianBetter PlaceCreativenessInspirational Art Author:Jeff Koons
“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.” WorldDifferentAbleJobsActorsActingAudienceCreatingConvinceDifferent Worlds Author:Christian Bale
“Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.” DifferentWholeAbleFilmVisionElementsCreatingUnique Author:Tim Robbins
“Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.” ThinkingWantArtMadeAbleArtistPovertyVirtueStyleCreatingNewsExperimentsSellingBrandsConsistentHardshipGood NewsEmergingGood Art Author:Jerry Saltz