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• When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creative, Together, Faith And Love

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• It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.

  Mitali Perkins

  Pain, Creative, Community

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Rejection

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• Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Women, Contemplative Life

  Gift from the Sea ch. 2 (1955)

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• The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

  G. H. Hardy

  Life, Science, Men

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• I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Vision, Might

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Creative, Helping, Realizing

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

  Roger Scruton

  Loss, Emotional, Addiction

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

  Nancy Hale

  Gossip, Creative, Creation

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• It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Country, Children, Artist

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creative, Cameras, Fantastic

  "Carlos Fuentes Trades His Pen for Television" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 1990.

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Our World

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Freedom, Yield

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• I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Piano, Creative

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• Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Giving, Creative

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

  William Goldman

  Creative, Enough, Screenwriters

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• Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Different Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Thinking, Creative

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Children, Creativity, Long

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• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Creative, Secret

  Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

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• The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

  Leonard Read

  Regret, Men, Creative

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• There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Journey, Creative, Soul

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.11, Penguin

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