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“We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.”
“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”
“Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.”
“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
“Reality is only for people with no imagination.”
“we are continuing Gods work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and unfold creation beyond where ...”
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”
“Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop t...”
“The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, exce...”
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, crea...”
“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers commo...”
“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not onl...”
“When I think of normality I think of mediocrity”
“We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.”
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but...”
“History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.”
“The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?”
“Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could...”
“The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the ...”
