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
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself. — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who… — Boudleaux Bryant Copy Share Image
Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the… — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
I’m trying to embroider.” Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “You’re trying to avoid—” Her mother stopped, blinking. “I say, why… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need… — Alexandre Aja Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined... — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Norway is much more than just oil. We have a rapidly growing fish sector, a high-tech metal and aluminium industry, abundant access… — Moddi Copy Share Image
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image