"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"All serious daring starts from within."

Baez, Joan on risk
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."

Eliot, T. S. on rebellion
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on writers and writing
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"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."

Stevens, Wallace on photography   

"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."

Thoreau, Henry David on mediocrity
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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"The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups."

Browder, Charles on creativity   

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil on creativity
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"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."

Goble, Frank on creativity
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven."

Paracelsus, Philipus A. on creativity   

"I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant."

Proust, Marcel on creativity
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

Sandburg, Carl on creativity
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!"

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."

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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on language
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"It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand."

Upanishads, Veda on understanding   

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

Yeats, William Butler on language
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"True creativity often starts where language ends."

Koestler, Arthur on creativity
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"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."

Albee, Edward on creativity
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"The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

Ally, Carl on creativity
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Artaud, Antonin on creativity
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"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness."

Stark, Freya on parents and parenting   

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."

Angelou, Maya on feminism
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"Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on imitation
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on virtue
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"If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. "

Hillesum, Etty on creativity
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"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. "

Hillesum, Etty on creativity   

"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn."

Vidal, Gore on style
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"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on individuality
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"Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!"

Jong, Erica on women   

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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