Best creating & creating-something Quotes

“I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.”

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Author:Estella Warren

“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

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Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

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Author:Barry Mann

“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

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Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.”

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Author:Robin Gibb

“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”

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Author:Carl Reiner

“Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.”

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Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.”

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Author:Ferran Adria

“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.”

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Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.”

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Author:David Copperfield

“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.”

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Author:Eartha Kitt

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

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Author:Gena Rowlands

“Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.”

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Author:Howard Schultz

“I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.”

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Author:Natascha McElhone

“What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.”

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Author:Olivier Theyskens

“I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.”

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Author:Ellar Coltrane

“Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.”

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Author:Graham King

“It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.”

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Author:Abhay Kumar

“The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.”

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Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.”

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Author:Sarah Burton

“At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.”

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Author:George Hickenlooper

“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.”

“Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.”

“I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.”

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Author:Jeet Banerjee

“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.”

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Author:Shook

“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.”

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Author:Anousheh Ansari

“Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.”

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Author:Frank McCourt

“I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.”

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Author:George Hickenlooper

“If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“Creating something is all about problem-solving.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.”

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Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.”

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Author:Megan Griffiths

“But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.”

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Book:The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

“Even though I worked hard at times, it was always magical. I have to confess I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the down times I enjoyed, because we were creating something that would make people smile and lift their hearts. You can't think of a better job than that.”

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Author:Floyd Norman

“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.”

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Author:Howard Shore

“If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.”

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Author:James Gustave Speth

“In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”

“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.”

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Author:Arthur C. Brooks

“The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.”

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Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

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