#creative

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#creative #inspirational #solitude #inspirational

You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is ↗

— Osho

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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#courses #creative #creative writing #english #english major

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. ↗

— Nate Silver

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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that. ↗

— Paul Simon

#creative #did #i #level #player

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter