Creating Quotes

• It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Business, Learning

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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• Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

  Peter Shepherd

  Happiness, Success, Responsibility

  Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.124, DoctorZed Publishing

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• Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  "How to make stress your friend". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. June, 2013.

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  I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

  Miles Davis

  Good Morning, Future, Creativity

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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  It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Hands

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't expect a great day; create one.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Attitude, Expectations

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• If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Death, Religious, Islamic

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Commitment, Tuesdays With Morrie

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

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• To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

  John Dickey

  Use, Guides, Competence

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Objectivity, Facts

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Finding The One

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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  The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

  Steven Spielberg

  Opportunity, Giving, Balance

  "Don’t have a mentor? Then mentor yourself" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2016.

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• Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

  John M. Ford

  Games, Surfing, Different

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• The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, School

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• It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Mother, Native American, Warrior

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Research is creating new knowledge.

  Neil Armstrong

  Research, New Knowledge

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• Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, God, Loneliness

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• You have to work at creating your own culture.

  Mitch Albom

  Culture

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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• Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Believe, Ideas

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  Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fear

  "Fictional character: Cypher Raige". "After Earth", www.imdb.com. May 28, 2013.

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