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“Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?”

Thinking Way Sometimes Whole Artist Choices Creative Example Assuming Stores Video Magazines Dirty Groceries Grocery Stores Chaps Time Magazine

Author:Christina Aguilera

“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.”

“If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Hurt Creativity Creative Harder Sticks Prepared Disappointment Boring Be Creative

Author:Chuck Barris

“I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.”

Has Beens Roles Creativity Creative Player Be Creative

Author:Eric Cantona

“I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.”

Ifs Believe Kind Process Difficult Imagination Religious Views Creative Records Involved Point Of View Creative Process Difficult Things

Author:Nick Cave

“Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.”

Humans Culture Courses Creative Danger Healthy Normal Tradition Blind Nationalism Attachment Human Experience Refusal

Author:Anthony Daniels

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.”

Trying Happens Creative Reader Careful Thoughtful Helpful Editors Midwife

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.”

Thinking Way Ideas Reason Able Acting Emotion Creative Environment Letting Go Structure Intense Range Controlled Cliffs Intense Emotions

Author:Carla Gugino

“Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.”

Ifs Writing Art Soul Ends Use Energy Process Difficult Sides Creativity Creative Type Convinced The End Of The Day Feminine Masculine Protagonists Creative Energy Feminine Energy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”

Writing Artist Actors Pay Creative Directors Zero Tribute Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative”

Writing Years Long Seems Creative Pieces Couple Productions Posts Timing Post Production

Author:George Clooney

“When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.”

Want Morning Creative Bed Something New New You

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.”

Thinking World Littles I Can Facts Problem Kids Strong Imagination Brain Creative Constant Very Strong Little Kid Somewhere Else Other Worlds Positive Things Problems In Life

Author:James Gunn

“I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.”

Persons Ideas Creative Creation Creating Come Up Cherish New Things New Ideas New Thought Creative Person

Author:Lil Wayne

“Faith is an active creative force.”

Force Creative Active

Author:J. H. Oldham

“Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.”

Mean Action Energy Creative Resources Meaningful

Book:Skillful means

Source: Skillful means

“There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.”

“People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.”

People Thinking Matter Use Powerful Creativity Creative Effects Talent Keys Elements Luck Fundamentals

Book:The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”

Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Real Happens Together Born Creative Poet Expression Originals Prose Poetry Is Constructive Intervals Reborn Creative Expression

Author:Herbert Read

“I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Certain Grows Vision Creative Elements Purity Tunnels Tunnel Vision Myopic

Author:David Sanborn

“If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.”

People Ifs Want Needs Country Energy Creative Industry Protection Fuel Innovative Alternative Energy

Author:Tom Vilsack

“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

“Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries.”

Source: Black Science #1

“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.”

People World Use Might Energy Economy Creative Influence Military Changed Shapes Smart Affair International Size Diplomacy Being Smart Levers Creative Energy International Affairs

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.”

Has Beens Enough Moments Used Spirit Fall Interest My Own Creative Saws Creation Sorrow Quiet Infinite Rough Decline Looking To The Future Creative Spirit

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.”

Two Spirit Given Stars Creativity Creative Saws Greater Particular Aspect Perfection Absolutes Mood Cosmos Makers Barren

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”

“If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.”

“Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.”

“Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself (that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect) has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.”

People Seems Today Spiritual Force Realizing Perfect Creative Truth Is Achievement Majority Oneself Genuine Encounters

Author:Bob Proctor

“In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.”

World Two Facts Force Views Opinion Principles Creative Objects Theory Method Depth Rounds Awakening Painter Poetic Horizon Intuitive Boundless Cognition Grasping Unexplored Futurist

Author:Gino Severini

“I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.”

Want Kind Creative Decided Absolutes Pressure Ideology Trends Creative Freedom

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.”

Mind Humans Cases Fantasy Creative Perfection Supreme Vanity Greek Imperfect Ugliness Monument Spoiled Rationalism Creative Mind

Book:Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.”

Would Be Creative Genius Discovery Mere Conclusion New Beginnings Novelty Disregard Supplements

Book:Insight: A Study of Human Understanding

Source: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding

“The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionas making a spark requires two things struck together.”

Two Together Creativity Creative Two Things Sparks Juxtaposition

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.”

Ifs Giving Trying Important Creative Willing Giving Up Optimist Not Giving Up Pessimist Willing To Try

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).”

“My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.”

I Can Light Form Lying Creative Talent Expression Essence Painter Colour Creative Power Essence Of Life

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”

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Author:Umberto Boccioni

“These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.”

Should Problem Able Cities Creativity Creative Issues Economic Solutions Institutions Hopefully Lending Economic Issues Creative Solutions

Author:Bob DuPuy

“Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.”

Creative Doubt Strategy Nurture

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.”

Artist Left Technology Creative Computer Tools Smell Mediums Flats Stations Brushes Jars Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Donald Lambert

“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”

Stories Earth Artist Song Creative Particular Unique Signatures Irreplaceable

Book:The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

Source: The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

“Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.”

Helping Nature Creative Scene Productive Insightful

Book:Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Source: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

“A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.”

Chance Creative Environment Band My Favorite Collaboration Supportive Best Work Favorite Bands

Author:Dave Genn

“What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Decision Creative Achieve Ego Collectives Collaboration Always Trying

Author:Dave Genn

“Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.”

Process Creative Notion Creative Process Preconceived Notions

Author:Scott Kahn

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