"Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a……" — Eric Maisel
"Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?"
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100 Quotes by Eric Maisel
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of…
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love…
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers…
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because…
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect…
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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