“The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.” HandsGivenCreatingObservationFacultyHand In Hand Book:Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.” IfsShouldImportantRealitySchoolCertainGivenIssuesDisciplineCreatingOrganizationFunctionImportant ThingsPrincipalGiven UpSchool Principal Author:Itay Talgam
“I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.” WorldI CanFactsGivenVisionShareCommunicationCreatingBridgesGapsOutsidersMisunderstoodImpetus Author:Yoko Ono
“Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.” HumansGivenHuman BeingsAbilityAnimalCreationCreatingBirdSubstanceImmortalityInsectsEverlasting Author:Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary
“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?” IfsDoeEndsFactsHandsJobsLastsFightingOpportunityLeftGivenPresidentSupportStupidPolicyMonthsCreatingElectionIraqOpeningTroopsSenatorsPresident BushOur TroopsCreating JobsSupport Our Troops Author:Stephen Colbert
“The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.” GivingWholeGivenVoiceCreatingCreating Music Author:Thom Yorke
“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.” ThinkingCountryTurnsFallGivenFireTreePromiseCreatingCapableEuropeSeasonsBrownAutumnYellowContinentsFrostCreating BeautyPortents Author:Archibald MacLeish
“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.” KnowsWorldShouldArtistOrderGivenCreativeStudyCreatingCapacityLaborIncludingAlmightyAvoidingRivalsCreative WritersDuplication Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.” Has BeensBeautifulSongGivenSpaceBuildingDegreesCreatingMusic IsMereCreatorChecksBlockEndeavorBlankTime And SpaceTuningBuilding BlocksEmbarkingBlank Check Author:Jon Foreman
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.” PeopleThinkingBelieveLittlesGivenI BelieveDealsResponsibilityEnvironmentCreatingFree WillTaking Responsibility Author:Alanis Morissette
“The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.” WorldFirstsBelieveSaidDoneChristianFormGivenNationsCommunityChristianityKeysCreatingMinistersBelovedDevotedConferencesMamaEvangelicalFirst LadyArgentinaUgandaFaith Community Author:Roger Ross Williams
“In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.” GivingHas BeensDoneWantedSpiritualityGivenGoes OnCreatingServingServing GodGiving To Others Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.” WayMomentsGivenCreating Author:Wayne Dyer
“Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.” WorldDoeDreamSeemsGivenBrainWonderAwarenessCreatingCrossesResponseActiveBlockRemarkableWakingRespondingThreshold Book:The sleepwatchers Source: The sleepwatchers
“My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.” WorldYearsLittlesSelfFeelingsSchoolHouseGivenParentNaturalChurchCreatingMy FamilyTinySunsetSundayButterflyNatural WorldFew WordsSunday SchoolOld SelfAstounded Author:Cheryl Strayed
“The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.” I CanHardGivenTermAttentionProduceCreatingNegativePressureMeaningfulIntenseSensitiveEngagedAccurateBest WorkScrutinyHarassmentHyperTropes Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].” WellsKindMeanPersonsValuesGivenTermResponsibilityHavensChangedCreatingMy FriendsMy FamilyPrioritiesPresidencyPersonal ResponsibilityUniversalityReinvention Author:George W. Bush
“Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.” ThinkingWorldArtistGivenVoiceGenerationsCreating Author:Shakira