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“In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.”

“Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.”

Writing Book Silence Creative Workers Creative Work Interruptions Frantic

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.”

“You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.”

People Needs Should Kind Doe Creative Passionate Primaries Be Kind Creative Work

Author:Veronica Roth

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”

Ifs Men Made Sometimes Artist Known Vision Creative Clear He Man Wall Tools Selfish Creative Work Withdrawal Seclusion

Author:Georgiana Burne-Jones

“The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.”

Children Littles Play Imagination Principles Fantasy Creative Serious Birth Treats Accounts Debt Characteristics Inconsistent Creative Work Memories Dreams Reflections Short Sighted Serious Work

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.”

Creative Creating Accidents Creative Work Happy Accidents

Author:Jim Lee

“It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.”

Ifs Said Important Sometimes Happens Used Creative Meetings Used To Be Desks Workplace Casual Creative Work

Author:David Chipperfield

“If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.”

Ifs Want Creative Creative Work Do It Yourself

Author:Kate Baldwin

“British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.”

Thinking Realizing Creative Presses British Creative Work

Author:John Cleese

“The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.”

Science Results Creative Mathematics Proof Reasoning Mathematician Guessing Creative Work Plausible

Author:George Polya

“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.”

Men Way Happens Realizing Simple Creative Limits Survival Function Strive Sufficient Engaged Equilibrium Endeavour Creative Work

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.”

Feels Kind Doe Age Force Grows Creative Middle Worst Offers Middle Ages Creative Work Bereft

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.”

Needs Years Stills Lying Difficult Creative Conditions Ordinary Tests Twenties Simplicity Accomplish Access Professionalism Creative Work

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.”

Kind Mean Important Together Values Community Creative Pride Activism Developing Creative Work

Author:Anne Waldman

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.”

Ifs Way Writing May Done Pain Creative Driven Driving Nuts Arrangements Creative Work

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.”

Men Nations Creativity Creative He Man Mountain Endless Frustration Layers Creative Work Administrators

Author:Hyman Rickover

“The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.”

Creative Importance Bases Creator Lasting Experimentation Innovators Creative Work Irreverence

Author:Eric Temple Bell

“I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.”

My Own Ability Creative Talent Creative Work Talents And Abilities

Author:Victoria Chang

“I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.”

Trying Years I Can Creative Five Months Fantastic Composing Creative Work

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.”

Form Creative Intense Carrie Creative Work Intense Love

Author:Lin Yutang

“I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.”

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.”

Way Has Beens Stills Used Certain Lost Simple Company Creative Century Produce Products Program Destroyed Data Code Software Creative Work Inaccessible Simple Ways

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.”

Men Creative Worst Shooting Creative Work Milieu

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.”

Men Mind Stills Reality Creative Creative Work

Book:Disaster at Dundee

Source: Disaster at Dundee

“It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.”

Ifs Creative Good Work Creative Work Work Relationships

Author:Bjork

“Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!”

“Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.”

People Way Feels Heart Littles Artist Creative Havens Workers Track Satisfied Accomplished Mediocrity Worthwhile Beaten Confined Creative Work

Author:Albert Einstein

“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Kind Art Individual Stars Creative Example Expression Originals Structure Response Theoretical Creative Work Catalogues Maxwell

Book:The World of Mathematics

Source: The World of Mathematics

“Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

“[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.”

Creative Balance Digital Creative Work

Author:Yugo Nakamura

“Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.”

Trying Kind Said Self Fall Found Steps Creative Heard Mystery Source Rivers Landscape Realms Songwriters Linear Creative Work Wilder Linear Time

Author:Rosanne Cash

“My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.”

Creative Runners Justified Blades Creative Work Blade Runner

Author:Philip K. Dick

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”

Author:Steve Jobs

“To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.”

People Way Stills Done Character Stories Creative Week Reader Reflection Exciting Incredibles Accomplishment Hats Coming Back Creative Work Hats Off

Author:Michael Uslan

“In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.”

Should Self Form Order Creative Cutting Expression Complicated Private Life Self Expression Creative Work Complicated Things

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.”

Trying Morning Creative Organized Afternoon Connecting Creative Work

Author:Garance Dore

“I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.”

Want Mean I Can Play Feelings Creative Focus Periods Management Core My Time Time Management Retreat Creative Work Socializing Management Systems

Author:Danielle LaPorte

“I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.”

Feels May Hard Done Creative East Useless Etc Routine Addict Heroin Creative Work Opium Derivatives Opiates Morphine Routine Work

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

Source: Psychological Types

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

Source: Psychological Types

“I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.”

Enjoy Creative Team Creative Work Creative Team

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from.”

Thinking Men Young Found Black Creative I've Learned Professors Creative Work Leftists

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.”

People Ifs World Writing Made Would Be Names Fun Watches Creative Identity Skills Core Made It If I Could Dozen Superhero Creative Work Technical Skills

Author:Kurt Busiek

“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.”

“Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.”

Levels Principles Creativity Creative Greater Invention Abstract Abstraction Creative Work Unheard

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.”

Thinking Wells Process Answers Creative Study Psychology Groups Backgrounds Discussion Not Sure Professors Parallels Creative Work

Author:Paul Beatty

“You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.”

Knows Ideas Together Creative Brave Work Out Creative Work

Author:Kate Bush

“Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.”

Writing Has Beens Lines Creative Teaching Classroom Parallels Creative Work Parallel Lines

Author:Adam Kirsch

“I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.”

Knows Play Form Process Enjoy Numbers Creative Alive Stage Theatre Printed Creative Work Tactile Printed Word

Author:Wole Soyinka

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