“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMayLittlesIdeasSoulEndsJoySpiritWalksMistakeWonderCreativityCreativeTearsSorrowSpringLowsWeaknessInnovationMovedRoseResponseIllnessInvisibleHandleMental IllnessRealmsAutumnSunlightCreative PeopleEccentric Author:Duncan Long
“To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.” LittlesWalksCreativityWallAnxietyOneselfObsession Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.” PersonsHandsJobsWalksCreativityCreativeTypeToolsOppositesCookingCooksKitchenCarriePensPencilsTheoreticalSymbolicNotebookSymbolic Meaning Author:Ferran Adria
“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.” IfsGivingChildrenFeelingsTogetherJoyReadingSportsWalksPleasureMistakeCreativityExampleListeningComfortResourcesCookingWoodsListening To MusicAvenuesParticipatingClosenessKindlesWalk In The WoodsOld Feelings Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he is creative, whatsoever he does, even if he walks, you can see in his walking there is creativity. Even if he sits silently and does nothing, even non-doing will be a creative act. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree doing nothing is the greatest creator the world has ever known.” IfsMenWorldFirstsDoeWalksKnownCreativityCreativeTreeParticularWalkingSittingCreatorRememberedDoing Nothing Author:Rajneesh
“The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.” PeopleThinkingMomentsProblemWalksCreativityCreativeFourPeriodsPhasesShowersBathsIncubationStepping Back Author:Eric Weiner
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” MenLightChoicesDecisionWalksCreativityDarknessCreativeGreatnessWords Of WisdomWalkingIntegrityCreatingDestructionCharitySelfishEvery ManAfrican AmericanGenerositySelfishnessDestructivePhilanthropyAltruismBe CreativeLight And DarknessBenevolenceEgoismPhilanthropicLight And DarkGive And TakeDarkness To LightGenerosity And KindnessKindness GenerositySelfish PeopleMan Of IntegrityKings And LoveDestructivenessGood KingsDeeds DoneSelfish MenCharity And GenerositySpiritual Darkness Book:Strength to Love Source: Strength to Love
“Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.” PeopleInspirationalHelpingWalksCreativityCreativeGreaterRiskMountainClimbsVillageTerritoryLanesCreative People Author:R. D. Laing
“The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.” WorldStoriesFoundLostLeftWalksCreativityPathMiddleMovementPositionConversationDiversityCompromiseVarietyComplexityMissionaryMaking LoveInabilityMiddle Path Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.” HumansIdeasScienceWalksRoomsNumbersHalfCreativityCreativeCuttingRocksFieldsArgumentLonelyNotionBoundsMythologyBarsShipsObservationChainsFancyExpensiveInteractionDesksCharmingEquipmentLaboratoryGeologyCreative WorkSynthesisGeologistUnbiasedCalculators Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.” InspirationalUsedWalksCreativityWonderfulCreation Author:Lady Bird Johnson