Best creative & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”

Happiness Joy Lying Effort Moral Creative Achievement Mad Mere Forgotten Profit Possession Thrill Stimulation

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”

World Artist Effort Creative Chaos Naked Vulnerable Artistic Vulnerability Cosmos Indifferent Nothingness Endeavour

Author:Peter London

“In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern.”

Mind Humans Art Ends Process Effort Creative Stage Products Mark Simplicity Patterns Definitions Complexity Human Mind Primitive Elimination Refining

Author:Eric Hoffer

“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.”

Ifs Humans Force Effort Creative Function Claims Lays Patterns Intellect Cease Reasoning Monopoly

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Effort Creative Machines

Author:Dorothea Lange

“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.”

Humans Art Religion Values Effort Creative Human Life Imaginative

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.”

Humans Heart Stories Imagination Powerful Effort Creative Design Demand Percent Labor Tests Insight Finished Maturity Human Heart Vivid Analytics Finished Work Vivid Imagination

Author:Robert McKee

“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”

“Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.”

Jobs Effort Creative Benefits Mark Bills Income Inequality Gates Wealthy Income Inequality Zuckerberg

Author:Foster Friess

“A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.”

Sex Bits Effort Creativity Creative Conversation Climate Pleasant

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.”

People Mind Sometimes Whole Facts Passion Common Effort Creative Genius Drama Insult Injury Imaginative Creative Genius

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.”

Men Use Together Purpose Effort Creative Honest Awareness Identity He Man Roots Ultimate Instruments Feds Living Together

Author:Jay Saunders Redding

“Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.”

Beautiful Grows Process Challenges Common Effort Creativity Creative Mystery Flower Exciting Careful Soil Creative Process Cultivation Beautiful Flower

Author:Herbert Simon

“Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.”

Men World Energy Goal Interesting Effort Creative Danger Building Judging Ideals Uncertainty Judged New World Creative Energy Interesting Times

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.”

Men World States Nations Effort Vision Creative Stage Shapes Universal Structure Mature New World Sovereignty Marxism Monetary

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.”

Want Choices Process Realizing Effort Creative Design Series What You Want You Choose Fabric Mills Collaborative Effort

Author:Marc Jacobs

“During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!”

Way Believe Looks Ability Effort Emotion Creative Letting Go Seasons Income Streams Believe In Yourself Insecurity Transition Continuing New Ways Believe In You Unstable

Author:Barbara Wentroble

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