Quotes of: Creative-mind Keyword

Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They're like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I'm hunch...

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know, no one has ...

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the wood. Now the page is no longer blank. There's something there. It isn't your business yet to know whether it's going...

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will chan...

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

Tragedy has a cruel way of ripping off the masks of self-sufficiency and self-satisfaction. It yells in the streets, "No! Everything is not A-okay!" It cracks apart our airtight theologies about God having everything under control. It forces us to ge...

Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, l...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Identifying Your Dream Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.

Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough boo...

Kate Forsyth

I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t have to walk alone. You can work in an office — I’ve w...

Lev Grossman

Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is thi...

Shannon L. Alder

If you can bring yourself to apply your imagination to finding the possible favorable outcomes of undesired developments, even if only as an exercise, you'll see that it fosters creativity. This suggestion is much more than a way to find the silver l...

Gavin de Becker

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--...

David N. Elkins

Mindful living is an art. You do not have to be a monk or living in a monastery to practice mindfulness. You can practice it anytime, while driving your car or doing housework. Driving in mindfulness will make the time in your car joyful, and it will...

Thich Nhat Hanh

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Thiruman Archunan

You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.

Curtis Joseph

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs. Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent