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Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.”

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Book:The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

Source: The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

“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.”

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Author:David Lynch

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Wells Self Eye Consciousness Enemy Creativity Creative Mirrors Editors Publishing Creative Writing Marketplace Doing You Self Consciousness

Author:Andre Dubus

“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.”

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Author:Andre Dubus

“I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.”

Thinking World Done Today Enemy Creativity World Today

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.”

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Author:Adam Grant

“A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.”

Writing Today Realizing Enemy Creativity Crafts Unconscious

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we can alter our body parts, we can act in the most perfect or right way. A lot of that is dangerous because, especially in the world of art, the chief enemy of creativity is being safe. If you're safe, you can't fall and hurt yourself. The older you are, the further down the crash is going to be. But if it works out, the higher the high.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

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Author:David Lynch

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.”

Moving Turns Enemy Creativity Perspective Comfort Intuition Conquer Zone Comfort Zone New Perspective Conquering Fear Moving Beyond

Author:Dan Stevens

“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”

Ideas Desire Work Enemy Creativity Industry Innovation Productivity

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”

Ifs Writing Friendship Natural Enemy Creativity Occupation Solitary Savages Being Alone Undertakings Family Friends Preconceptions Natural Enemies

Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

Inspirational Inspiring Enemy Creativity Design Taste Originality Good Taste Creativeness

Author:Pablo Picasso

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