“You can do this. Not you must do this. You can, that is the creative act. Must is an instruction. Can is an openness to creativity. So we ought to decide what we can do.”— William McDonough, amazon.com
“I felt something else: initiated, aglow. The whole world stood accused: You never told me it felt this good.”— Leslie Jamison, nytimes.com
“Today, however, “ ‘intellectual life’ has disappeared from the Left Bank,” he says. The most interesting galleries migrated across the river years ago to the Bastille and the Marais, many of the great bookshops have closed — there is a Louis Vuitton boutique where La Hune used to be — and the Latin…”— Jonathan Derbyshire, ft.com
“So it was not just that orgasm might heighten creativity in women; maybe creativity also heightened orgasm.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“This biological, evolutionary connection for women of possible ecstasy to emotional security has implications that cannot be overstressed. Relaxing allows for female arousal.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The female body reacts in the same way to “bad stress” whether the context is the birthing room or the university or the workplace. If the female brain senses that an environment is not safe, its stress response inhibits all the same organs and systems, regardless of setting.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feel…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.”— Ross Perot, logomaker.com
“Your thoughts are either creative or destructive. They’re either energizing you or depleting you. Be nice to yourself. Choose creative thoughts.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Imagine the world the world you wish to exist, first. Do not be afraid to build it from scratch. Trust your vision.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“If you do not feel represented, if you do not see the world you are envisioning for yourself, feel free to: write it, draw it, build it, make it. You have all the tools you will ever need.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“We’re products of an Internet-fed culture that pulverises every idea into a dozens of smaller pieces, the pieces mingling with others and reforming into “new” ideas which are in turn smashed and so the cycle continues, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly… An ever evolving sequence of fragmentation and co…”— Richard Turley, medium.com
“The idea of the artist as auteur, the virtuoso, is so rarely applicable and yet so needfully desired.”— Richard Turley, medium.com
“I find it far more interesting, dare I say it — original — in this day and age to be honest to the fact that anyone involved in any creative practice is knitting together other peoples ideas, influences to create their own outcomes.”— Richard Turley, medium.com
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info
“There are also changes at the macro brain level. The areas associated with this trait greatly overlap with the brain areas that support empathy! Also, they have a hyperactive insula, which explains their heightened awareness of their inner emotional states and bodily sensations. This hyperactivity e…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“It is not surprising that this trait is found in artists, poets and is linked to giftedness, creativity and empathy. At the same time, a Highly Sensitive Person is at a higher risk of depression and burnout, because they get easily overwhelmed. This is why it is critical to know if you are a HSP, so…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“There are biological reasons for all the components of this trait. A HSP’s brain is wired differently and the nervous system is highly sensitive with a lower threshold for action (2). This hyper-excitability contributes to increased emotional reactivity, a lower threshold for sensory information (e.…”— Marwa Azab, psychologytoday.com
“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”— Antoni Gaudí, amazon.com
“I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.”— Jim Henson, amazon.com