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• Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

  Roger Scruton

  Loss, Emotional, Addiction

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

  Ellen Page

  Who I Am, Creative, Able

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Country, Children, Artist

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• Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

  Nancy Hale

  Gossip, Creative, Creation

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• Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

  Clark Moustakas

  Self, Creative, Life Is

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• Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Creative, Too Much

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Source: progressive.org

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• Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Creative, Helping, Realizing

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

  Ai Qing

  Dark, Tunnels, Long

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• There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Journey, Creative, Soul

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.11, Penguin

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• The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

  Leonard Read

  Regret, Men, Creative

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• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Creative, Secret

  Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

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• The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Children, Creativity, Long

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• Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Thinking, Creative

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Different Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Jewels, Interesting

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2015). “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

  William Goldman

  Creative, Enough, Screenwriters

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• I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Giving, Creative

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Piano, Creative

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Freedom, Yield

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Our World

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• The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.

  Paul Schrader

  Silly, Dirty, Emotional

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