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“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“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

“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

Life Giving Art Energy Sides Creativity Difficulty True Love Painter Love Always Energy Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”

People Sides Creativity Greater Sea Effects Source Genius Function Mark Obsession Drag Anchors Inconvenient Badges Side Effects Brake Ocd

Author:David Adam

“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.”

People Way Needs Said Able Sides Voice Talking Creativity Loud

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.”

People Want Sides Goal Creativity Overcoming Spending Resistance Corporate Cubicles Spending Your Time

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”

Trying Sides Creativity Capacity Madness Mad

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Two Sides Creativity Devil Responsible Monsters Human Mind Medal Two Sides Cathedrals Mint Pathology Splendour Gargoyles

Book:Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

Source: Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

“Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.”

World Two Sides Creativity Coins Two Sides Best Of Both Worlds

Author:David Allen

“There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.”

People Two Sometimes Sides Creativity Player Technique Songwriters Coins Intuitive Two Sides Eric Hendrix

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.”

Purpose Certain Sides Lines Decision Creativity Creative Walking Serving Versus Recognizing Objectivity Music Business Subjectivity

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.”

Thinking Sides Creativity Add Originality

Author:David Neeleman

“Success is on the far side of failure.”

Success Fear Sides Creativity Failure Innovation Far Side

Author:Thomas J. Watson