Achievement Quote by Susan Cain

“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight. We lose our…

— Tony Reinke

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated…

— Arthur Koestler

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence…

— Marion Woodman

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.

— Shaun McNiff

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

— Christopher Hitchens

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in…

— Samuel Johnson

“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts…

— Thomas Gilovich

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge…

— Northrop Frye

“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.”

— Édouard Levé

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

— T. S. Eliot

The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an…

— Eric Hoffer

Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious…

— Loren Eiseley