"But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony."
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"There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies."
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"O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do."
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"There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative."
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"Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work."
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"The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge."
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"I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing."
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"Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties."
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"Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate."
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"Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility."
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"The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you."
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"I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects."
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"Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act."
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"I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life."
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"Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out."
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"Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe."
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"When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for."
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"Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community."
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"What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?"
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"All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war."
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