creativity
“Be careless, reckless! Be a lion! Be a pirate!”
“We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product.”
“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.”
“Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create."”
“The imagination needs moodling,—long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
“It is better to imitate wisely than to invent foolishly.”
“Make it new.”
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”