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- Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to…
- It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
- I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our…
- Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted…
- We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
- We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener…
- All children have creative power.
- If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank…
- If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced…
- If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at…
- We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external…
- We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the…
- The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all…
- I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all…
- The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude…
- Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the…
- Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb…
- But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations…
- Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle