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“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.”
“We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order to mak...”
“Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.”
“Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, its often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.”
“The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There was nowhere I longed to be more than the university campus. I was preparing for a mast...”
“Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they s...”
“My words shouldnt be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.”
“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. ...”
“I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.”
“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.”
“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”
“When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.”
“Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.”
“If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what h...”
“During my 20s and 30s at some point I started to think, I have to give it up and I have to grow up. But the truth is that I can never give it up and thats another thing that I always tell people, e...”
“In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...”
“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”
“Originality has nothing to do with producing something new - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one wor...”
“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.”
“... misfortune and creativity go together.”
