To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has… — Akiva Goldsman 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
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being… — John Backus Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life. — John Friend Copy Share Image
ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I did however realize that only 4% of the world's population turns creative when in contact with water and thus we dialed… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really… — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want.… — John Oates Copy Share Image
Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
“It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different,… — William Plomer 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
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
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