“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.” IfsWayWantLooksDoneArtistInspiringCreativeToo MuchWillingMemorableLive Your LifeDifferent Jobs Author:Steve Jobs
“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.” IfsGivingTryingImportantCreativeWillingGiving UpOptimistNot Giving UpPessimistWilling To Try Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.” IfsIdeasCreativeFailingWillingExperimentsDespitePoolBe CreativeBreakthrough Author:Doug Dawson
“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
“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingYearsWellsActionCreativeShareAdviceWillingGoes OnComfortPhotographyMajorsStuckBlockNot SureZoneFilmmakingComfort ZoneChanging Your LifeBest AdviceDrasticCreative Block Author:Rainn Wilson
“Be willing to take some risks in the areas of work and money. If we do only what we think we should do in order to make money and be secure, we won't listen to the intuitive voice that tells us to try something new, to be more creative, or to move on to the next step on our path. When we listen to our intuition and take some risks, we are not alone. The universe will support us and reward us for taking risks on its behalf!” IfsThinkingShouldTryingMovingOrderUniverseNextVoiceStepsSupportCreativePathRiskWillingAreasRewardsIntuitionSecureMaking MoneySomething NewBehalfIntuitiveNot AloneNext StepsTaking RisksWork And Money Book:Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations
“I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.” PersonsSidesDarkWatchesCreativeWillingMoonSensitiveWizardsDark SideCreative Person Author:Wayne Coyne
“You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.” IfsTryingTermBrainCareersCreativePiecesWillingHorseStrikesMoodGet BackBlockedRacksRoadblock Author:Dave Koz
“Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor of pulling the boat over the mountain is so integral to anyone making any creative effort. It's that universal Sisyphean struggle.” OrderHouseEffortVisionStruggleCreativeSacrificeWillingMountainUniversalMadMetaphorBoatDreamerOperaPullingOpera House Author:Sam Pressman
“I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.” BelieveHelpingHandsLastsFilmYoungI BelieveCreativeWillingExpressionIndependentAvailableMakersFrontiersHelping HandIndependent FilmCreative Expression Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.” ShouldHumanityVisionCreativityCreativeWillingDegreesConsequenceTolerateFrozenUnstableSuperstitiousInstabilityHubris Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.” IfsThinkingWantKindProblemSinCreativeRiskWillingWindCircumstancesCostConsequenceIronyNovelistsTrafficAvoidedSentimentality Author:Steve Erickson
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.” IfsPassionForceCreativityCreativeRiskWillingPassionateLive With PassionPassion For Work Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.” WayYearsHumansPersonsStillsDifferentRealBodyBeautifulSpiritualValuesHuman BeingsSituationCreativeRiskWillingInspirational LifeFindingsManifestBe CreativeCompetenceAccommodate Author:Virginia Satir
“We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.” ThinkingCreativeKnowingWillingConscious Author:Ernest Holmes