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 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
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
I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into… — Daniel Day-Lewis 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
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
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“History buried becomes history repeated. A whole generation of Africans have been denied the truth of their own history, and so we… — Shailja Patel 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
“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
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
“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
“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Physics is thus a creative work of abstraction, far from the theory of everything that is sometimes claimed. For about a century,… — Mark Burgess Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of… — Charles Segars Copy Share Image
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When I want to make a creative work, I still have producers of marketing houses dictating to me how I should make… — Shobana 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
I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the LGBTQ community for embracing me so tightly and pushing not only my music,… — Doechii 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/644/ayn-rand-59_creative_if-people-place-such-things-as-friendshi_53834.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/quotes/img-quotes/88c/paul-beatty-6684_answers_well-it-s-not-all-the-same-but-there-are_1309966.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/6fc/cormac-mccarthy-181_authorship_creative-work-is-often-driven-by-pain-it_628097.jpg)
