Quotes of: Creative-process Keyword

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

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

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

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

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

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

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

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

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.

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

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

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

I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative.

Nikki Sixx

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Osho

Discovering Distilled Creativity "Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that still moment, your distilled creativity comes ...

Sandra Sealy

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even...

Tabatha Coffey

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the worl...

Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know could...

Nolan Bushnell

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but ...

Marc Jacobs

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and del...

Jim Hunt

I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creativel...

John Lasseter

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money,...

Jan de Bont

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different,...

Nayyirah Waheed

The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter. (...)mental health... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur.

The Good Psychologist

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.

177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class: The Thought Processes, Habits and Philosophies of the Great Ones

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merel...

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases