Creative Power Quotes - Page 5

• On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Loss, Civilization, Creative

  A Study of History (D. C. Somervell abridgement), bk. 4, ch. 13 (1947)

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• The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Fire, Creative, Emotion

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

  Brenda Ueland

  Creative, Live In The Present

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• Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Creative, Meditation, Important

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.19, BookBaby

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• This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

  Martin Buber

  Art, Men, Creative

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.78, eBookIt.com

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• The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

  Mary Oliver

  Uprising, People, Creative

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Science, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

  Agostino Scilla

  Life, Sports, Nature

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• Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Determination, Moving, Creative

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

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