Creative Quotes

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Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it… — Laurie Alberts
There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible. — Peter Cundill
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good… — Edward Mazria
The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist. — Dewitt Jones
Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting there the smoothest… — Rikki Rockett
While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spiritâ€¦Â Once she hears the cries of… — Valerie Estelle Frankel
Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act… — Marianne Williamson
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent… — Epictetus
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience… — Joseph Campbell
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. — Atom Egoyan
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive… — Noam Chomsky
You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your… — Bob Proctor
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. — Julia Cameron
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises
Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table… — Daniel H. Pink
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee
You have two choices in life - you can dissolve into the main stream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be… — Bob Proctor
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger… — Leonard Cohen

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