“As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.” KnowsLittlesTakenNiceCreatingShadowGardenStrategyClimateBottomPanicRefugeListenersPonds Author:J. K. Rowling
“The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.” KnowsFirstsHumansDreamRealityActionPassionAbilityVisionStepsFireAchieveGreatnessLimitsAchievementCreatingCommitmentExcellenceBoundariesDevelopingFuelFirst StepsWhatever It TakesIgniteNo BoundariesHuman Actions Author:Tony Dungy
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.” KnowsWorldRealReadingSourceHabitCreatingDisappointmentBitterReal WorldProvidingRefugeDistressDelightfulUnrealHuman BondageBitter DisappointmentUnreal World Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics) Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsLooksIdeasCreatingOriginalsSticksMessParadiseGet AwayAway From YouOriginal Ideas Book:The Secret Life of Bees Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde
“My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.” KnowsEnergyDestinyWrittenFansProtectCreatingAlbumsFinishedMy Destiny Author:Lady Gaga
“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayPainCertainSufferingCausesNaturalSituationConditionsEventsJudgingDegreesPerceptionCreatingLet MeFunctionResistanceInstancePhenomenonHere I AmNatural Phenomena Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.
“In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel." "If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am." (Adam R. Young, 2006)” IfsKnowsWantFeelsHeartLittlesSoulTodayYoungArtistSongChanceEmotionOpinionHugeMy HeartPleaseCreatingMassMusic IsBlueWho I AmAdamKnow MeImaginativeHeart And SoulPortUnconventional Author:Adam Young
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.” PeopleKnowsBookIdeasCharacterStoriesSimpleBrainCreatingSupposed To BeIdentificationLikeable Author:John Green
“That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.” KnowsMenDoeArtSaidJoyNightDiesDifferencesOne ThingPaintingWallCreatingPaintPainterPerformingVansPerforming ArtsStarry Night Author:Joni Mitchell
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” KnowsHumansImportantShowsRememberSidesConsciousnessCreatingImportant ThingsProfoundGreat ThingsMaking MoneyStreamsCoinsAcidPsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessLsdPsychedelic ExperienceMy Biography Author:Steve Jobs
“As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.” IfsKnowsWorldProblemUniverseProcessNaturalDesignProduceEvolutionPromiseCreatingCapableInfiniteComplexesCriticsNotionDefinitionsCreatorBiologist Author:Sam Harris