“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?” GivingEnoughValuesAsksRoomsCreativePiecesBuddhismBalancePaperHarmonyDown AndListsSuperficialAdopting Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?” ValuesHellCreativeExpressionDrugStonesArtisticBotherRollingAddictExesHeroinRolling StonesDrug AddictBoozeDrunkardsHendrixCreative Expression Author:Lars von Trier
“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
“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.” IfsSelfArtistValuesCreativeExpressionProductsFameEnjoyedVansSelf ExpressionComposingComplementComposing Music Book:What Price Fame? Source: What Price Fame?
“In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.” ArtWholeHomeValuesCreativeModernSupremeSubordinatesModern ArtCreative Power Author:Andre Malraux
“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.” PeopleWorldMindLooksIdeasHardHelpingProblemAmericaBeautifulValuesOpportunityChanceCommonPrinciplesRolesCreativeLandTalentInformationHard WorkReturnHighestStandardsIdealsRewardsHelping OthersDialogueFortunateNew IdeasTransparentDissentCommon GroundHigh StandardsPrincipledLand Of OpportunityTalent And Hard Work Book:America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.” MenFeelsMomentsLife IsValuesAcceptingCasesCreativeHe ManBecomingWesternSatisfactionDependentFacultyFrustratedSymptomsNeuroticWorth LivingLife Is Not Worth LivingWestern Values Author:Paul Robeson
“Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.” HumansArtReligionValuesEffortCreativeHuman LifeImaginative Author:Karen Armstrong
“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.” PeopleMindHumansValuesEnergySpaceBrainCreativeTalentDependsAmountDemandSmartCommitmentIncreaseAvailableProportionEnterpriseHuman MindScareCreative PeopleSmart PeopleComputingTime And EnergyVery SmartBrain Power Author:Steven Weber
“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.” IfsWorldDifferentProblemWould BeValuesFoundStepsCreativeSpecialSolutionsArgumentAppreciateFundamentalsStrategyAssumingInvestmentGapsLeapRecognizingSymphonyDifferent PlaceBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Scott Aaronson
“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.” PersonsValuesHumanityConsciousnessMoralKnowledgeCreativeAchievementIncreaseDeterminePracticalsUsefulnessMoral Values Author:Stefan Zweig
“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.” MindFeelingsFacesValuesForceCreativityCreativeGreatnessElementsIncreaseRemainsExtraordinarySuperiors Author:Stefan Zweig
“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.” ThinkingDifferentValuesCultureCreativeWallIndustryEnglandSouthScotlandHadrianCreative Industries Author:Sara Sheridan
“It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.” DoeValuesAbilityCreativityCreativeVanityPossessed Author:Christina Stead
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein