“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.” WritingProcessLosesPracticeCreativeDoorsKeysHabitStructureInsightInstanceConsistentWriting ProcessInvitationsDaily Habits Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.” MindStatesSpiritValuesPowerfulConsciousnessPracticeCreativeMeditationMaterialsContactPeacefulBlissState Of MindDeep Meditation Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.” MenWellsGovernmentLawPoliticsJusticeCommonEffortPracticeCreativeRecordsViolenceWillingCitizensProtectLetting GoCapableFunctionBiggerPropertyFraudProvenAssignmentsInvokePredatoryMisrepresentation Author:Leonard Read
“All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.” MayArtEndsPracticeCreativeFunctionChiefsPersistent Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.” ThinkingWritingTryingHumansArtProblemBrainPracticeCreativeActivityNormalArisePeculiarHuman ActivityLizards Author:Dave Hickey
“You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.” IfsMotivationalPracticeCreativeMinutesEnd TimesSpend TimeEnvisioning Author:Robin Sharma
“This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.” EarthDifficultPracticeSupportCreativeRealizationTransitionDifficult TimesDisparaging Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.” GivingWritingPracticeCreativePerspectiveDescriptionAccurateCreative Writing Author:Ernest Hemingway
“I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.” WritingMy OwnFictionTeachPracticeCreativeTeachingApproachGenreCreative WritingNon FictionPhds Author:Kate Zambreno