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"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty . . . the better I feel about the quality of my work." "Is mastering the art of self-creation as important to you as learning another language?" "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." "Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." "Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." "Live with no time out." "If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." "A happy brain is a balanced brain. And a laughing brain is a creative brain." "Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost." "As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire." "I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." "The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends on how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong." "Truth hurts. Not the searching after, the running from." "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." "Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination." "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." "By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path." "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." "Ideas move rapidly when their time comes." "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." "The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat." "If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is." "The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation, lasts." "If you can't excel with talent, then triumph with effort." "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." "Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you." "There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less." "If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted." "Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic." "Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware." "Good taste is the enemy of creativity." "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously." "There is an artist within each person, and everybody has the capacity to find creative genius in themselves." "If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing." "We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive." "I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art." "No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." "There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation." "The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about ancient history, 19th-century mathematics, manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea." "Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try." "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." "Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life." "Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself." "Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious, part of a pattern." "To be nobody -- but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden." "In order to hear your calling and answer it, you must generously give yourself the gift of time. It's not how fast you make your dream come true, but how steadily you pursue it." "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." |
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