"Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life."
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"A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well."
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"Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all."
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"Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature."
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"There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up."
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"It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books."
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"In order to be creative, you don't have to be original."
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"I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem."
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"What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project."
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"What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn."
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"Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better."
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"Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive."
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"Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds."
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"By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death."
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"The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods."
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"Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain."
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"The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature."
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"You cannot be creative with people around you."
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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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"Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it."
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