British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it. — John Prebble Copy Share Image
If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“Some artists are criticised, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the one who are remembered.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“I mean, contrary to the contemporary version of it, classical liberalism (which remember was pre-capitalist, and in fact, anti-capitalist) focused on the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth every day for… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Whatever variant of freedom is espoused, a basic income would enhance it. However, in the liberal tradition a basic income would be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with his meaningless… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“So vocation belongs to this world, not to heaven; it is directed toward one's neighbor, not toward God. This is an important… — Gustaf Wingren Copy Share Image
I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with. — Craig David Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work,… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative enquiry, for free creation.’1 Noam Chomsky” — Nicholas Ind Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
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