Creative Quotes - Page 39

• Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.126, New World Library

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• The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Creativity, Lines, Individualism

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• "A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

  Joseph Curiale

  Creativity, Hands, Life Is

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• Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone. They arise from a deep inspiration on the universal level, and are then expressed and brought into form through the individual personality.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspiration, Creativity, Personality

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.129, Mango Media Inc.

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• Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

  Zhuangzi

  Moving, Creativity, Expression

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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Benefits

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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• Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Ideas, Common Sense

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.116, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

  Aaron Copland

  Country, Creativity, May

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• The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Creativity, Circles

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• Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

  David Cronenberg

  Technology, Expression, Separation

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

  Neve Campbell

  Nice, Sitting, Separation

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• The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

  Matthew Humphreys

  Data, Design, Growth

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• Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

  John Fowles

  Music, Art, Band

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Exercise, Men

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• The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

  Napoleon Hill

  Effort, Inspire, Mind

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.231, American Liberty Press

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• I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Home, Average

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• Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.

  Baba Amte

  Gratitude, Grateful, Feelings

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• My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

  Ronnie Wood

  Real, Self, Scary

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

  Donald M. MacKinnon

  Simple, Chaos, Disorder

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• When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, Memories, Childhood

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

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• The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Exercise, Men

  Eric Gill (1937). “Work & property &c”

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• Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Perception, Innocence

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe".

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• I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Anger, Persons, Angry

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• Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

  Judit Polgar

  Winning, Everyday, Playing Chess

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