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• YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Destiny, Words You Speak, Think Before You Speak

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

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• When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Goal, Purpose

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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• Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Travel, Eye

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• Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

  Leonard Sweet

  Life, God, Christian

  Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Mind

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Life, Writing, Duration

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

  Sonny Rollins

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• What I created got abominated.

  Ralph H. Baer

  Criticism, Creation, Abomination

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• You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Destiny

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• The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

  Alphonse Mucha

  Hope, Bridges, Understanding

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• If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 20, 2012

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Jealousy, Wisdom

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• You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Inspirational, Creativity, Judging

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Teamwork, Giving Up, Mean

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012

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• I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

  Chase Jarvis

  Art, Money, Entrepreneur

  "Chase Jarvis: How He Became The Photographer Everyone Wants To Work With". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. January 27, 2014.

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• As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.

  Sydney Banks

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

  Murray Bowen

  Relationship, Fixing, Fixed

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• What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

  Chris Hani

  Love, Inspirational, Country

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• I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

  Afeni Shakur

  Love, Inspirational, Children

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• I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.

  Urijah Faber

  Inspirational, Destiny, Second Chance

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