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"God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality."
"Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays."
"All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising."
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions."
"Without death there would be very little progress."
"It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do."
"If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity."
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."
"If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance."
"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."
"Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are."
"The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love."
"When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?"
"Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy."
"In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own."
"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
"I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form."
