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“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

Knows Mind Artist Creative Information Survival Machines Defense Stillness Gathering Analyzing True Artists

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.”

World Life Is Joy Spirit Desire Creative Alive Adventure Impulse Possessed Constructs Life Is An Adventure Creative Spirit

Book:Roads to Freedom

Source: Roads to Freedom

“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.”

Individual Creative Gender

Book:Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

“If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Ideas Fun Creative Having Fun New Ideas Be Creative

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.”

Creativity Creative Creator Creative Work

Author:Michael Bassey

“To be creative you actually have to do something.”

Creative Be Creative

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.”

Use Individual Teach Creative Crazy Amount Healthy Ambition Negative Mad Endless Manage Insanity Opposition Feedback Scrutiny Disheartened Negative Feedback

Author:Criss Jami

“The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.”

Actors Voice Creative Performances Backgrounds Fearless Competent Live Performance

Author:Rob Paulsen

“The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.”

Doe Creative Conflict Organization Response Tempting

Book:The change agent

Source: The change agent

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.”

People Way Helping Creative Unique Wide Scales

Author:J. Christopher Burch

“If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.”

Ifs Want Art Creative Actresses

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.”

World Kind Might Creative Nice Isolated Pathways

Author:Andrew Dost

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”

Inspirational Mind Kind Known Creativity Creative Design Training Intelligence Witty Educational Creative People Creative Art Unschooling Creative Mind Creative Imagination Imagination Creativity

Author:Anna Freud

“I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.”

Helping Dream America Film Artist Vision Creative Week Team Achieve Casts Producers Thirty Designer Captains Supportive Qualified Sculptors I Had A Dream Preps

Author:Joe Johnston

“I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.”

Thinking Needs Writing Might Pain Song Emotion Creative Capture Be Creative Ups & Downs Writing Love Writing Love Songs

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.”

Believe Life Is Purpose Belief Fun I Believe Easy Sides Creative Stress Programming Purpose Of Life Rubies Less Stress

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.”

Thinking Want Home Care Kids Beautiful Passion Energy Creative Balls Focused Driven Insane Tornadoes

Author:Susan Downey

“The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.”

Creative Movement Consumers

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.”

Knows Know How Creative Issues Selling Producers Working It Control Issues Selling Something

Author:Scott Cohen

“The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.”

Done Moments Next Creative Movement Possibility Essentials Aspect Bases Fundamentals Extraordinary Video Amazement

Author:Bill Viola

“Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.”

Creative Crazy

Book:French Lessons: A Novel

Source: French Lessons: A Novel

“Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.”

Thinking Want Enjoy Space Creative Where You Are Be Creative Free Thinking

Author:David Karp

“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”

Way Common Creative Madness Common Sense Destructive

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.”

Reality Truth Creative Roots Labels Propaganda Hypocrisy Nurture Slogans Creative Work

Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.”

People Thinking Book Done Creative Rich Products Industry Weakness Publishing Creative Business

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.”

Want Acting Creative Producers

Author:Jason Gann

“You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.”

People Needs Long Certain Laughing Creative Roots Originals Artistic Funniness

Author:Jason Gann

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Writing Said Two Ends Creative Flower Drink Taste Advertising Brown Bottles Ads Creative Writing Slogans Spit Cigar Billboards

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.”

People Creative Organization Creative People Doers Administrative Administrators Setups

Author:Roone Arledge

“We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.”

Creative Be Creative Ballots

Author:Kinky Friedman

“Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.”

Force Process Class Creative Civilization Destruction Representatives Wholesale

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.”

Feels Looks Book Enjoy Creative Information Wall Pages Weight Titles Reminders Spine Creative Thought

Author:Al Seckel

“The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.”

Persons Science Pay Attention Creative Contradictory Creative Person Irregularity Close Minded

Author:Frank X. Barron

“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.”

Life Simple Creative Rich Environment Trouble Life And Living Garden Environmental Simplicity Joyful Simple Life Minimalism Simple Living Life Living Living A Simple Life Life Is Simple

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.”

Way Humans Heart Soul Light Asks Answers Inspiring Creative Mystery Theory My Heart Comfort Angel Guides My Soul Responding Intricate Guide Me

Author:Terry Taylor

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”

People Life Mean Dies Born Creativity Creative Birth Creativeness

Author:Erich Fromm

“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.”

World Inspirational Two Bigs Differences Ability Principles Creative This World Be Creative

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.”

Inspirational Littles Spirit Lost Left Creative Creative Spirit

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!”

World Inspirational Creative Surprise Changing The World

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.”

Inspirational Mean Creative Shortcuts

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.”

People Inspirational Made Matter Stuff Ability Mistake Creative Projects Excellence Strive Busy Insignificant Too Busy Misfits Frivolity Striving For Excellence

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.”

People Thinking World Needs Mind May Ideas Creativity Creative Gratitude Drug Claims Sells Add Wander Experts Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Hal Elrod

“A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.”

Persons Play Might Able Creativity Creative Innovation Be Creative

Author:Kurt Hanks

“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.”

Humans Ability Vision Creative Entrepreneurship

Author:Jeffry A Timmons

“Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.”

Should Creative Photography Be Creative

Author:Fred Picker

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