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“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

“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

“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.”

“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.”

“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

“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

“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”

Ifs Ideas Creative Failing Willing Experiments Despite Pool Be Creative Breakthrough

Author:Doug Dawson

“If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.”

Ifs Children Education Creativity Creative Needed Involved Tools Intelligent Our Children Educational Mastery Literacy

Author:Danny Glover

“If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.”

Ifs Feels Children Given Sex Pleasure Creative Source Birth Healthy Rhythm Allowing Organs Rhythm Of Life

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.”

Source: Remarks on the science of history: followed by An a priori autobiography

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.”

Ifs Feels Light Given Creativity Sun Creative Grace Mystery Unexpected Deserving

Author:P. L. Travers

“If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.”

Ifs Want Children Creative Successful Rebel

Book:Cauldron

Source: Cauldron

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Believe Art Artist Force I Believe Can Do Creative Worst Projects Unusual Permission Requirements Worst Things Be Creative Restriction Do Whatever You Want

Author:Lisa Mangum

“Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.”

“But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.”

Ifs Self Dream Sides Creative Records Sky Concepts Originals Who You Are Aging Wide Accomplishment You Choose Absolutely Nothing Free Time Uncommitted

Author:Barbara Sher

“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.”

“Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.”

Ifs Creative Buddhism Approach Immortality Spontaneous Doorways Pragmatic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress.”

Ifs Men Humans Heart Lasts Destiny Creative Atheism Adventure Source Achievement Responsible Blessed Positive Atheism Analysis Excitement Enterprise Fearful Distress Great Adventure

Author:Paul Kurtz

“I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.”

Ifs Said Stills Hard Bigs Jobs Creative Hard Times Pot Saying No

Author:Jeremy Renner

“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Fun Process Creative Too Much Good Things London Flying Moving Forward Planes Creative Process Jumping Too Much Work

Author:Tom Hanks

“You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Kind Creative Obvious Creative People Shooter

Author:William Monahan

“My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.”

Ifs Want Art Hard Form Fun Can Do Creative Hard Work My Favorite Wave Having Fun Be Creative Surfing Favorites Things Do Whatever You Want Just Have Fun

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.”

Ifs Writing Creative Crazy Periods Flow Hardest Juice Creative Juices

Author:Ice Cube

“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”

Ifs Way Needs Children Use Past Hurt Deals Compassion Creative Childhood Adults Raised Harm Meaningful Love And Compassion

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it.”

People Ifs War Stars Decision Vision Creative General Public Wacky Creative Vision

Author:George Lucas

“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”

Ifs Knows Want May Use Dream Form Lying Force Know How Creative Keys Flow Method Wide What You Want Opening Mold

Author:Robert Collier

“When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.”

Ifs Knows Giving Should Language Break Audience Creative Heard Effects Poet Standards Busy Deliberate Barbarians Usage Lapses Slang Buffoons Breaking Rules

Author:N.D. Wilson

“If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.”

Ifs World Artist Lost Religious Leader Steps Roles Creative Insight Religious Leaders Creative Writers

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.”

Ifs Want Book Culture Reading Creative Example Reading Books

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.”

People Ifs Want Creative Team Smart Folks Creative People

Author:Steven Sinofsky

“If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.”

People Ifs Ideas Song Creative Band Musician Stones Arrangements Competent Creative Ideas

Author:Bill Wyman

“But there is always creative destruction in markets: there are always new winners taking the place of those that are. So if you only look at the market's surface, it may appear flat, but there's always huge turbulence taking place within.”

Ifs Looks May Creative Huge Destruction Surface Winner Flats Turbulence Creative Destruction

Author:Kerr Neilson

“Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.”

Ifs Children Stills Marriage Creative Adults Rejoice

Book:One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

“Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.”

“According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and creative acts. But the Hartle-Hawking probability is not dependent on any supernatural considerations; Hartle and Hawking do not sum over anything supernatural in their path integral derivation of the probability amplitude.”

Ifs Desire Religion Universe Belief Creative Path Dependent Consideration Probability Theism

Author:Quentin Smith

“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.”

“For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Firsts Reason Seems Difficult Term Creativity Creative Fairs Very Good Scared Myth Quitting Creative Writing

Author:Sarah Kay

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

Ifs Feels Mind Littles Ideas Rooms Enemy Creativity Creative Bed Creating Filled Selfish Bitter Instance Negativity Creating Something Creative Ideas

Author:David Lynch

“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

“we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.”

Ifs Way Ideas Change Space Creative Knowing Refuse Invention Confusion Uncertainty Confused Interpretation Not Knowing Be Creative Great Idea

Book:Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

Source: Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

“There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.”

Ifs Creative Ambition Selfishness

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.”

Ifs Should Writing Believe Form I Believe Creative Serious Expression Holy Calling

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

Ifs World Needs Should Persons Certain Creative Amount Creating Criticism Criticize Shut Up Creating Something Creative Writers

Author:Gena Rowlands

“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.”

“The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.”

Ifs Mind I Can Different Able Order House Rooms Creative Crazy Wall Clean Disorder Exploring Bounce Mental Disorder Drive Me Crazy Off The Wall

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Dream Action Creativity Creative Comfortable Details My Way Unwilling Hallucinations Just A Dream Thinking Things Through

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.”

Ifs Knows Stories Kids Beautiful Stuff Creative Lows Concepts Ridiculous Combination Opera Bugs Introduction Classical Music Intriguing Bunnies Very Cool Fantasia

Author:Jon Hamm

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