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"Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process."
"The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process"
"Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it."
"If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim."
"To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations."
"I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it."
"As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source."
"That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating."
"The choices I make - they have to be creative."
"A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning."
"A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist."
"You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world."
"Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism."
"If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender."
"At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species."
"Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process."
"For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another."
"A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products."
"Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world."
"Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out."
