Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits.… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages,… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
“How To Be An Explorer Of The World 1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.) 2. Consider Everything Alive… — Keri Smith Copy Share Image
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above… — A. E. Hotchner 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
I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we… — Jamie Sams Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there… — Agostino Scilla Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you… — Noah Scalin Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
You Australian guys have your own way of speaking about music, you guys have your own way of enjoying music. You certainly… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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