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“Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.”
“The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.”
“They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart”
“Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.”
“Whatever you want, you can create with your imagination.”
“We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.”
“It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.”
“Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.”
“Give people room to be what God created them to be, don't force them to fit into your own mold”
“Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work”
“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”
“The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, th...”
“Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.”
“Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.”
“Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.”
“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from th...”
“Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.”
“The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.”
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent evening took hold in the blue squares of the windows, he ...”
“When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!”