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Thoughts to Think About
Below you will see an ever-changing list of quotations that we come across. This month they touch
upon many - but not all - of the aspects and components of creativity. They are listed here for you to consider, to share with others, to use as personal reminders.
We hope you'll come back and see the new ones that we post every month.
And if you have a quotation that you feel fits here, please use the form below to send it to us.
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To overcome self-doubt, disbelief, the “I can’t” syndrome….
- Ask why. “Why do I believe that I can’t?”
- Ask, then, “Is this belief based on an actual fact or on an assumption—or on a false conclusion?
- Then ask 4 questions:
- Is there any rational reason for such a belief?
- Could it be that I am mistaken in this belief?
- Would I come to the same conclusion about some other person in a similar situation?
- Why should I continue to act and feel as if this were true if there were no good reason to believe it?
~~Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics.
In the October issue of Spirit of Performance
“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
~~ Linus Pauling
Others you might find interesting:
“Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
~~ Blaise Pascal
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Albert Einstein)
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place” (Zen Saying)
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” (Abraham Lincoln)
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow”
(Woodrow Wilson)
“Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.”
(Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of the Smart Machine,1988)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Even the most abstract mind is affected by the surroundings of the body.” (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
“Once you believe that tomorrow will be
different (from today), your actions will change in line with your expectations.” (Paul Birch & Brian Clegg)
“Creative people are a bit weird.” (Alexander Hiam)
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is
that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” (A.A. Milne)
“Leap and the net will appear.” (Julia Cameron)
“It does not matter whether you paint,
sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter--it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have
something of the quality of divine.” (Osho)
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow
old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” (Author Unknown)
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” (Isaac Newton)
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