Creating Quotes - Page 3

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Carlos Castañeda

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Saint Catherine of Siena

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

Leslie Jeanne Sahler

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Simone de Beauvoir

I will not change just to court popularity.

Margaret Thatcher

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

To change and to improve are two different things.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

Winston Churchill

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

Alfred Edward Perlman

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

Karl Marx

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

Anonymous

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves "What will happen if ... ?" or better still "How can we make it happen?"

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoléon Bonaparte

New things cannot come where there is no room.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

Tuli Kupferberg

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity.

Phyllis McGinley

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.

Turkish Proverb

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Christian Bovee

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.

Shannon L. Alder

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

Fernando Pessoa

Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.

Katherine Catmull

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there's only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year old would find tedious, and the entire Human Race will probably be nonexistant a 100 years later, but - you know - i have no idea what else to do. I like creating. What else can i do?

Martijn Benders

His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Take full control by creating a life of true bliss through utilising the Power of The Heart.

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

Debasish Mridha

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse...go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to, the question of whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

Madeleine L'Engle

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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