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"My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within."
"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."
"Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures."
"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."
"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
"80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours."
"Creative energy is more critical than learning."
"The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works."
"I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something."
"I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate."
"Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress"
"He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death."
"In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation."
"I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time."
"In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious."
"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."
"I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that."
"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination."
"Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves."
"Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence."
