It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the...

I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people:...

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head – and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That...

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Avšak jako tvůrčí člověk je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not...

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what...

Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else’s as your truth.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

When you aren’t satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn’t need to complain.

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one...

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**That’s right – the essential insight doesn’t come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and...

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance...

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their...

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Asbjørn had a nose, that was his great talent, I had never met anyone with such sureness of taste as him, but what use was it, part from being the hub student life revolved around?...

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people,...

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple’s innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let...

Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your...

if you want to understand your child better then see through the child’s eye.

The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor...

Living a life full of wonder provides for a wonderful life.

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product’s novelty, fun factor or sheer stupidity. Whatever the case, just remember there’s always room on the market...

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When...