Creator Quotes - Page 7

• As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Doors, House, Doe

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• Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Normal, Life Is

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.122, Penguin

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• We need a president that is sitting down, getting Americans to work, getting this economy going. That is the single most important thing that the president of the United States does, is create a climate where job creators know that they're going to be able to risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on the investment. And it's never too late to start that.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Risk, Important

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• Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mother, Children, Men

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• The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

  Marcel Proust

  Atheist, Perfect, Denial

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 2 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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• Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Discworld, Hard

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

  Jasper Fforde

  Dream, Viruses, World

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• There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Rain, Emotional, Fire

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan

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• There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Moving, Might, Creation

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• Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

  Barbara Holland

  Dog, Thinking, Sun

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on target. And even if a beginning for the universe is a successful prediction of one version of theism, this is still not that impressive. After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The Big Bang becomes strong support for God only with an argument showing that such a beginning requires a Creator.

  Taner Edis

  Strong, Mean, Successful

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• Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Character, Mean

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• First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1867). “Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.25

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• The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

  Judith Guest

  Sleep, Editors, Two

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• fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

  Helen McCloy

  Art, Lying, Creativity

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• ... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Two, Silence, Three

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

  Emma Thompson

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

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• man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

  Ellen Sturgis Hooper

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Role Models, Comfort, Lovers

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• music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

  Baroness Orczy

  Music, Art, Mind

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• Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

  Fannie Hurst

  Art, Feels, Sensations

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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

  Brian Tracy

  Proactive, Circumstances, Creatures

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 16, 2013

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• It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

  Archibald Alexander

  Prayer, Children, Parent

  Archibald Alexander (2009). “Outlines of Moral Science”, p.264, Applewood Books

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