Creating Quotes - Page 28

• I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.

  Paul Smith

  Airplane, Numbers, Hands

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• Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

  Mpho Koaho

  Song, Writing, Routine

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.

  Watkin Tudor Jones

  Art, Strong, Reality

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• My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  School, Sunset, Butterfly

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.

  Daphne Oz

  Expectations, Trying, Facts

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

  Phil Keoghan

  Kids, Listening, Passionate

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

  Lauren Bowles

  Thinking, Realizing, Epiphany

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• Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

  Tim Matheson

  Creative, Change Is Good, Path

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Teaching, Hands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Moon, Technology, Men

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• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Clay, Negative

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• Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Zest, People

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• The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Responsibility, Learning, Risk

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• The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Character, Civilization, Games

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• They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Believe, Fiction

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• In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Jobs, Views, Novelists

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• The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears - there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Discovery, Darkness

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• Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He`s for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He`s interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Games, Play

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• One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Fighting, Insanity

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• Much is being missed because of fear. We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment. The body is going to die, the body is part of death, the body is death - but you are beyond the body. You are not the body; you are the bodiless. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth - that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Goes On, Body

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• Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Creating Something, Presence Of God

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• God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Creator

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• Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

  Maria Popova

  Self, Anxiety, Possibility

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• It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Inspirational, Creativity, Life Is

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