Creativity Quote by Chaim Potok Download Open image ““Disorder and frequent sorrow the mulch for creativity.”” — Chaim Potok ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Grief
“All of a sudden I understood why I was so moody, neurotic, simultaneously paranoid and megalomaniac, mistrustful, uneasy, driven by ambition but paralyzed by… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“As Barron began to make sense of what he observed, he came to identify a key consistency among creative people. Namely, these people seemed… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Everybody has inner creativity that has been lost amongst the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The small part of us that provides balance… — Lana Karr Copy Share Image
“A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Our home was like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road… — Lee Silber Copy Share Image
“Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.” — Douglas Haddow Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.” — Bonnie Kelso Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
