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"I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative."
"Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy."
"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."
"The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics."
"We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this."
"Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within."
"I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music."
"Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires."
"I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television."
"People get very creative if you include them."
"A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind."
"The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind."
"By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values."
"Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind."
"All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God. Just imagine the great creative Source needing an excuse. It doesn't have any concept of, "I'm too busy. I'm too old. I'm too afraid. Things are going to take too long." Source doesn't work like that. The Tao does nothing, Lao-tzu writes, but it leaves nothing undone."
"A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
"Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing."
"Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life."
"Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!"
"Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations."
