Creative Quotes

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No writing is a waste of time â€“ no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present. — Brenda Ueland
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… — John Steinbeck
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other… — Carl Sandburg
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power… — Paramahansa Yogananda
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships,… — Deepak Chopra
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress... — John Muir
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure… — John O'Donohue
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin,… — Erica Jong
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. — Stephen King
If you are creative, you must be dissident. — Nawal El Saadawi
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge,… — Deepak Chopra
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved… — Jacques Maritain
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. — Joyce Carol Oates

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