In Their Own Words…A Collection Of Useful & Interesting Quotes…
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
“The next
thing we know, the symphony is half over and we never heard it. …And
you think, ‘What a waste of time.’ But in that thinking, your
mind begins to travel from one thing to another and all of a sudden you’re
inspired by the music, by the emotion, and from that I will get some of
my very best ideas.” (Charles Schultz)
“I wanted a greater, richer life, but not at the expense of others…”
“After many rejections, I got back to the simple abracadabra, the
straw that makes the bricks, the crude sketch… I described in simple
words how it felt to take my mother’s hand and walk across the sunlit
fields, how it felt to see Joey and Tony rushing toward me with arms open,
their faces beaming with joy. I put one brick upon another like an honest
brick-layer. Something of a vertical nature was happening—not blades
of grass shooting up, but something structural, something planned. I didn’t
strain myself to finish it; I stopped when I had said all I could. I read
it over quietly, what I had written. I was so moved that the tears came
to my eyes. It wasn’t something to show an editor; it was something
to put away in a drawer, to keep as a reminder of natural processes, as
a promise of fulfillment. Every day we slaughter our finest impulses…tender
shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own
powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet,
when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering
profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery
about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all
poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is
already there.” (Henry James, author)
“I love being alone with myself, and thinking. But I can be alone
only among people. I can think only if I’m pushed and shoved, surrounded
by difficulties, with questions to answer, problems to solve, wild beasts
to tame.”
“You always need an excuse to set off on a journey. A creator always
needs excuses. Creators should almost be forced to create. It would be a
good idea to have a state organization that would make artists work without
respite form morning till night.”
“Be what you are, that is, discover yourself, in order to love life.”
(Frederico Fellini, Italian Film Director)
“If the Angel [of inspiration] condescends to come, it will be because
you have persuaded him, not with your tears, but by your humbled decision
always to start afresh…” (Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet)
When we think of the Creative mind we must think of an open mind, one able
to create a space within itself for something new, constantly opening itself
to the internal and external world. The opened mind can wander playfully
into areas others do not take seriously, and return with creations that
must be approached in all seriousness. The journey can be so scary and so
strange that we want to run back to safety, or to cover up our discovery.”
(Barron, Creators On Creating)
“The idea seems absurd, but I can find no flaw in it.” (Johannes
Kepler, astronomer/scientist)
“One must ‘wander’. When one becomes too goal-oriented,
single-minded, pursuing one foot in front of the other, I might as well
be a robot or a computer. Humanity fades; joy is gone. There’s an
art to wandering. You can have a plan, but you must not fix a destination.
Or you can have a destination, but no plan. Without a plan you are rambling,
but not ‘wandering’. Too often we fix our destination in order
to relieve our fears, but we have no plan. The fear of the unknown must
be overcome in order to be creative.” (Cathy Johnson, naturalist author)
“Anyone who begins to look at the capabilities of the human mind is
forced to admit that we humans limit ourselves far greater than [can be]
comfortably believed.” (Willis Harman, Ph.D, research psychologist)
“I’m the only person I know who goes into a poster session [at
a scientific meeting] and stops at the first poster that I have no idea
what it’s about. Find the poster you don’t know anything about
and look at it for a long time, and you might learn something totally different.”
(Kary Mullis, molecular biologist, on being curious)
“People are not creative in a medium with which they have no contact.”
(J.G. Bennet, mystic and philosopher.)
“If I had eight hours to chop a tree, I’d spend six sharpening
my axe.” (Abe Lincoln)
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that
can be counted, counts.” (Einstein)
“Let’s all be composers! You can be a ‘video composer’
a ‘choreography composer’ a ‘social engineering composer’…
If you can think design you can execute design—it’s only a bunch
of air molecules being pushed around.
Just follow these simple Instructions:
1. Declare your intention to create a “composition.”
2. Start a piece at some time.
3. Cause something to happen over a period of time (it doesn’t matter
what happens in your ‘time hole’—we have critics to tell
us whether it’s any good or not, so we won’t worry about that
part).
4. End the piece at some time (or keep it going, telling the audience it
is a ‘work in progress.’
5. “Get a part-time job so you can continue to do stuff like this.”
(Frank Zappa, rock musician, composer)
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