#creativity

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#widsom #age

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever #cowboy #cowboys #creative #creativity

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. ↗

— Robert Shea

#computer #creativity #decline #fun #idealism

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place. ↗

— George Shearing

#creativity #degree #develop #equipment #first

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. ↗

— Jackie Gleason

#cosmos #creates #creations #creativity #dreaming

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. ↗

— Ray Kroc

#creativity #i #now #tuesday #word

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#expression #greatest #liberty

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#mess #life

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#civil-rights-movement #creativity #civilization

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creativity #writing #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice