Creativity Quotes - Page 20

And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction—nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat

Elizabeth Gilbert

Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration

Elizabeth Gilbert

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

Elizabeth Gilbert

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

Creativity is divine.

Imagination takes us to the invisible world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.

Creativity is magic in the making.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt

It tugged at his soul not to talk to other writers about his work. He loved the bank, keeping it secure and compliant with the laws and regulations. People assumed these things happened by magic. They did not. Hauer never talked about it outside the office. He didn't want to make the other writers uncomfortable. If he developed a reputation as someone who brought his work with him to writers conferences they would all turn away, to sip and swizzle their drinks without him.

Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.John Fowles attended new College in Oxford. You might like to see my collection of Oxford trees at Rob's Bookshop.

Begin to think.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Rollo May

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Mr. Lawrence drank from his beer. Do you know how I figure out what to do? I look under rocks for slime. I lick the slime with my own tongue. I see the problem for what it is, not what a consultant's methodology says it should be. I find people who are working on something that no one told them to work on, who solve a problem because they can't let it stay unsolved, who don't eat or bathe because it takes too much time. I find the ones selling their ideas to customers without going through the marketing department first. I've gotten good at picking molds off cheeses and turning them into penicillin. People used to wonder where my ideas came from. It was simple: I looked for slimy rocks and moldy cheese, and I watched the bank account like a hawk. It worked well for this company for a long time.

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would put it, these are the ones who enlarge human consciousness. Their creativity is the most basic manifestation of a man or woman fulfilling his or her own being in the world.

Rollo May

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Rollo May

By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.

Rollo May

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Stewart Stafford

The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as “given” to a person. A man or woman may have talent whether he or she uses it or not; talent can probably be measured in the person as such. But creativity can be seen only in the act. If we were purists, we would not speak of a “creative person,” but only of a creative act.

Rollo May

Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.

And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.

Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you’re gone.

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?

priyavrat gupta

It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By covering our bases financially, we escape the pressure to publish half-baked books, sell shoddy art, or launch untested businesses. When

I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.

New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.

Jen Pollock Michel

In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

Creativity is encountering something unexpected

...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn it was the stars that created their worlds, that worlds created their minds, that minds created tools, and tools could create stars. Growing, sprawling, thriving until they too became masters of their own understanding, chasing enlightenment with the fervor of having nothing to lose, launching from their homelands like fireworks with glorious yellow tails.

Jake Vander-Ark

Creativity is improvisation

Creativity helps us fight off the monotony of everyday life!

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself.

The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I know something is super creative, when I feel disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea!

Explore the power of a beautiful wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The writer’s life is a sacred wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I write the sacred words from wondering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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