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MEDITATIVE THOUGHTS

- Creativity I -

yellow arrow In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
yellow arrow If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
yellow arrow Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. English proverb
yellow arrow We must either find a way or make one. Hannibal
yellow arrow Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck
yellow arrow Innovators are inevitably controversial. Eva Le Gallienne
yellow arrow A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." Anonymous
yellow arrow Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. James Carswell
yellow arrow No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes
yellow arrow The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
yellow arrow Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
yellow arrow It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. W. Somerset Maugham
yellow arrow Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. Jonathan Schattke
yellow arrow The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Saul Steinberg
yellow arrow In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
yellow arrow You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete. Dr. Robert Anthony
yellow arrow Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. Lou Dorfsman

 

4/21/98

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