Quotes About Creative

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

The long-term challenge for disciples, however, is to represent the gospel not by seeking literally to duplicate past scenes but rather by continuing to follow Jesus into the present in ways that are both faithful and (necessarily) creative.

Born to Rebel: Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives, a book that contained overwhelming statistical evidence that birth order theory does have credence and validity.

And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?

If we accept that code is design — a creative process rather than a mechanical one — the software crisis is explained. We now have a design crisis: the demand for quality, validated designs exceeds our capacity to create them. The pressure to use incomplete design is strong.

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

The power in capitalism must not be mindless. Unless it is combined with knowledge, mere economic power or money is fruitless. Enterprise involves memory of the past and anticipation of the future, and it is creative. It is not a simple incentive system of rewards and punishments, of carrots and sticks. It is an information system, and it is governed less by economic theory as we know it than by information theory.

Thinking is conscious, willful, imaginative, and creative. A computer running at gigahertz speeds and playing a deterministic game like chess or Go is only a machine.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

A big advantage of being bald is that you can style your hair with a damp cloth.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action.

If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus, teaching at least part-time at university level, mingling too much for his work's good with academics, doing as much writing as he can for the CBC, and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

1 Q: What do you get when you cross the Creative Artists Agency with a ham sandwich? A: A ham sandwich that never returns your freaking phone calls.

I've been asked many times why and how do Steven and George make popular, blockbuster films. My answer is twofold: They know how to pick what the audience wants to see, and the creative part of their films is made by one or two people, not committees.

My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along!

If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.