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"I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world."
"The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you."
"Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives."
"Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'"
"I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words."
"Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later."
"Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants."
"We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such."
"Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?"
"If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!"
"The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe."
"Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning."
"... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities."
"We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being."
"Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends"
"I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up."
"One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully."
"Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles."
"My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them."
"Let's begin creating miracles now."
