“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.†– Pearl Buck
“F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I’ll be back.†-Steven Pressfield
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.†-Rita Mae Brown
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solutionâ€â€”Clay Shirky
“I am not afraid…I was born to do this.†– Joan of Arc
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.†~Antoine De Saint Exupery
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.†– J. K. Rowling
“Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.†– Dave Eggers
“Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.†-Aimee Mullins
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.†– Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.†– Helen Keller
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.†– Katharine Hepburn
“Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another’s perfectly.†-Bhagavad Gita
“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent†– Thomas Edison
“The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.†– Emily Dickinson
“To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.†– Robert McKee
“There is something deep within us that responds to those who level with us, who don’t suggest or compromise for us.†-Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership
“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams.†-Stuart Wilde
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.†-Pearl S. Buck
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.†-Goethe
“When I was in the middle of writing Eat Pray Love and I fell into one of those pits of despair that we will fall into when we’re working on something that’s not coming and we think ‘this is going to be a disaster, this is going to be the worst book I’ve ever written — not just that but the worst book ever written … So I just lifted my face up from the manuscript and I directed my comments to an empty corner of the room and I said aloud ‘ Listen you, thing! You and I both know that if this book isn’t brilliant that is not entirely my fault, right? Because you can see I am putting everything I have into this, I don’t have any more than this, so if you want it to be better then you’ve got to show up and do your part of the deal, OK? But you know what? If you don’t do that then I’m going to keep writing because that’s my job and I would please like the record to reflect today that I showed up and did my part of the job!†— Elizabeth Gilbert
â€We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve†-Albert Einstein
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.†– Margaret Mead
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart,…you’ll know when you find it.†— Steve Jobs
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.†-Soren Kierkegaard
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.†-Virginia Woolf
“People who don’t take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year, people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year†-Peter Drucker
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.†-Maya Angelou
“It’s not about breaking the rules. It is about abandoning the concept of rules altogether†– Paul Lemberg
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.†-Leo Burnett
“You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.†-John Wooden
“There’s only us, There’s only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss†– Mimi, Rent
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.†–Marianne Williamson
“Don’t hire a dog, then bark yourself†-David Ogilvy
“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.†– Martha Graham
“The only thing all successful people have in common is that they’re successful, so don’t waste your time copying “the successful strategies†of others.†-Seth Godin
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