Creativity Quotes
Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.
It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!
Creativity is, in many respects, a response.
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something
Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.
And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.
Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures
Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?
Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.
If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
You can either worry or wonder. The best choice is to wonder.
A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
When we connect to Creator, our sacred character develops.
He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.
You will manifest your sacred character when you connect to the Creator.
The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.
ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance.
She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.
I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.
I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...
A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.
No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams
Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.
Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.
Getting down to the gym a couple days a week and having low-fat milk in your morning latte isn’t going to make much of a dent in a system or lifestyle that is essentially, well, unwell.
Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.
Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.
Appreciation, affection, focus and intention fill up the space of self-reflection, and one loses oneself in the engagement. And what a relief it is when you get there.
The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.
The subjective experience of intense pain (“That’s all I can take”) corresponds exactly to one’s subjective experience in relation to truth (“That’s all I can take”).