Creativity
“Writing isn’t what you do after you have an idea. It’s how you develop an inkling into an insight. Turning thoughts into words sharpens reasoning. What’s fuzzy in your head is clear on the page. ‘I’m not a writer’ shouldn’t stop you from writing. Writing is a tool for thinking.” Adam Grant
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and
at the same time endlessly exposing them.” Author Unknown
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90’s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.” Neil Gaiman
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that ells us true things, over and over.” Neil Gaiman
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65…and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?” Anne Lamott
"The legendary cellist Pablo Cascals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. 'Because I think I'm making progress,' he replied." Author Unknown
“Those who sing pray twice.” Author Unknown
“The idea is not to live forever, but to create something
that will.” Andy Warhol
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.”
Susan Statham
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind… It needs people of moral courage, willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” David W. Orr
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable,
but they’re never weakness” Brenee Brown
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it…I sent him a card and drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” Maurice Sendak
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and
at the same time endlessly exposing them.” Author Unknown
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90’s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.” Neil Gaiman
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that ells us true things, over and over.” Neil Gaiman
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65…and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?” Anne Lamott
"The legendary cellist Pablo Cascals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. 'Because I think I'm making progress,' he replied." Author Unknown
“Those who sing pray twice.” Author Unknown
“The idea is not to live forever, but to create something
that will.” Andy Warhol
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.”
Susan Statham
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind… It needs people of moral courage, willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” David W. Orr
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable,
but they’re never weakness” Brenee Brown
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it…I sent him a card and drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” Maurice Sendak