This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as… — Georgiana Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's this word in Korean called cheoshi, which means first heart. Cheo is first, and then shi means heart. It's a very… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing.… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
The whole trajectory of my life has changed through the realization that life transcends self sustenance and the challenges we try to… — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
“Every stimulus which quickens the imagination and raises the spirits, is as necessary to our life as air. It invigorates the body,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“there are no other professional communities in which individual creative work is so exclusively addressed to and evaluated by other members of… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite album covers is On the Beach. Of course that was the name of a movie and I stole… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“Trust yourself and your instincts; even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Two lines from the book (The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan) remained wedged in her memory "It is easier to live through… — Randy Susan Meyers Copy Share Image
“When a man uses his waste time to do anything, all he gets is net profit.” This is a fact that few… — Herbert N Cassion Copy Share Image
“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator,… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“With any job, there’s some creative work that needs to be done—new technology to be developed or whatever. Everything else—ninety-nine percent of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background],… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
![“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal , Nov. 20, 2009]” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6fc/cormac-mccarthy-181_authorship_creative-work-is-often-driven-by-pain-it_628097.jpg)
![“Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some…” quote by Paul Beatty](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/88c/paul-beatty-6684_answers_well-it-s-not-all-the-same-but-there-are_1309966.png)
![“If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/644/ayn-rand-59_creative_if-people-place-such-things-as-friendshi_53834.jpg)
