Archive for 'quotes'
Friday’s inspirational quote
Posted on August 1, 2008, by dazzer67, under inspiration, quotes.
What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?
Doctor Who
Take something that inspires you and run with it, develop it, let it grow, then set it free.
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Make the world a better place
Posted on July 25, 2008, by dazzer67, under quotes.
With a little creativity
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
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Prepare your creative space
Posted on July 18, 2008, by dazzer67, under quotes.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
Well, the universe has been sorted for us, but the space you need for your own creativity still needs to be found. Go make some pie!
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George Carlin Inspiration
Posted on June 23, 2008, by dazzer67, under inspiration, quotes.
In memory of George Carlin who died yesterday 22nd June 2008 I thought we’d have a quote that could be used to inspire us all. George said,
‘I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.’
I’d like to add that the same is true of any creative activity. Find the line and cross it, creativity is all about going beyond, doing what hasn’t been done before. So find the line and cross it deliberately today, in memory of George.
Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies - CNN.com
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Do exactly as it says on the tin
Posted on March 2, 2008, by dazzer67, under quotes, writing.
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
George Orwell
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Secular and sacred divide: alive and stifling creativity
Posted on February 15, 2008, by dazzer67, under inspiration, quotes.
‘Creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.’
I found this quote from unknown origin as I was doing a search for creative quotes. I don’t know the context for the quote and so I don’t want to comment directly on it. However, it did get me thinking. I know many a ‘believing creative’ who would wholeheartedly disagree with the quote and claim the complete opposite. I also know many ’secular creatives’ who would wholeheartedly agree with it.
Perhaps the only thing that weakens creative ability is a closed mind, one that doesn’t seek dialogue with any side of the debate?
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How good a creative parent are you?
Posted on February 7, 2008, by dazzer67, under inspiration, perspiration, quotes.
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valery
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An answer of sorts
Posted on January 11, 2008, by dazzer67, under quotes.
“The cure for writer’s cramp is writer’s block.”
Inigo DeLeon
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New Year resolution? Be chaotic
Posted on January 3, 2008, by dazzer67, under quotes.
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star”
Nietzsche
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Organising is productive; creativity is organic
Posted on October 23, 2007, by dazzer67, under quotes.
The eternal creative paradox?
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A. A. Milne
