“It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds.” PeopleKnowsMindSelfHardCreativeComplexesParadoxStanding OutImaginativeCreative People Author:Scott Barry Kaufman
“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.” MenHardFacesEasyTermFoolDepthNosesVillainCheeksStanding OutRoguesKnavesBlockheads Author:John Dryden
“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.” HardMomentsSeemsSorrowPromiseUnderstoodShiningScriptureVersesStanding OutSplendorSunbeams Author:Horatius Bonar