"The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life."
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"Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you."
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"The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered."
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"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life."
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"Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative."
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"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act."
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"To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable."
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"People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself."
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"Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in."
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"To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative."
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"Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts."
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"I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy."
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"We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill."
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"Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven."
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"Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up."
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"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 institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth."
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"Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value."
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"You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin."
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