“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.” WritingTryingMayPersonsSaidReasonDonePerfectCreativityDependsAdvantageAverageCraftsPermanentOddTemporaryUsualIsolatedFierceAwkwardIntrovertDisadvantagesAverage PersonSaid And DoneIntroversionSocially AwkwardAdvantages And DisadvantagesHopes In LifeOdd One Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.” ThinkingWellsSaidEnergyForceCreativityCreativeWrittenCapitalismPraiseEnormousDestructiveAdmirationCommunistInnovativeManifestosCommunist ManifestoEngels Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.” KnowsWayWantSaidDoneStoriesCareCreativityThreatWhat You WantBotherWhy Bother Author:Danielle LaPorte
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” IfsSaidIdeasCultureGivenWorkSituationCreativityInnovationVictimRepresentativesPeer Pressure Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidAbleSidesVoiceTalkingCreativityLoud Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.” IfsLooksKindSaidMomentsEyeSpiritualityClassCreativityStreetsStudentsBabyWalkingDown AndCarriages Author:Charlie Haden
“Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.” ArtSaidFunnyCoursesCreativityDrinkDrinkingAlcoholDrunkStereotypeDrinking AlcoholFunny DrinkingAlcohol Drinking Author:Stephen King
“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is” PeopleKnowsWorldHas BeensSaidWholeSpiritualCreativityCreativeOne ThingDivineCreatorWhole LifeClosestGodlyClimax Author:Rajneesh
“Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don't let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, "honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry." Good to remember.” ArtSaidRememberCreativityHonestPoetCriticismAppreciationSensitiveContagiousDullnessBanalityEliotHonest Criticism Author:Elif Safak