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• It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

  Liza Dalby

  Jobs, Writing, People

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• I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

  Maya Lin

  Thinking, People, Matter

  Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

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• The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

  John Schaar

  Creating The Future

  John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that ‘begging bowl’ to which the gift is drawn.

  Lewis Hyde

  Artist, Essentials, Creation

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.186, Vintage

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• I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Japan, Creative

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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• To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Good Life, Children, Challenges

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• Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

  Adam Braun

  Challenges, Lasts, Easy

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Real, Technique, Stones

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• I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

  Billy Sherwood

  Feelings, Mind, Lyrical

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• Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha's liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Moving, Book

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• Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

  Marc Crawford

  Jobs, Responsible, Good Things

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• Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

  Al Siebert

  Good Luck, People, Important

  "The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks". Book by Al Siebert, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2005.

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.

  Jonathon Porritt

  War, Thinking, Law

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Ideas, Use, Invasion

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• I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Believe, Holy Places, Situation

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• Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Space, People, Okay

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• Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.

  Andrew Harvey

  Passion, Heart, Fire

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.490, North Atlantic Books

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• And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

  Beth Henley

  Dream, Writing, People

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• You, the real you, which is creating your body and judging every day - that is the Infinite Universe itself.

  Michio Kushi

  Real, Judging, Body

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• To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

  Prem Rawat

  Perfect, Mind, Criminals

  Speech in Los Angeles, September 1973.

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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Air, Imagination

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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