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Quotes About Creation

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
~ Clara Schumann
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
~ Mark Twain
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
~ Richard Dawkins
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
~ John Polkinghorne
You need to focus on creating the actual value of the company, not just the theoretical value. The actual value comes from a great product that sells well and is ultimately profitable.
~ Henrik Fisker
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
~ Said Nursi
You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
~ James Lapine
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.
~ Henry Petroski
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
~ Michael Polanyi
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
~ Robert Sternberg
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
~ Arthur Erickson
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
~ Alan Furst
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
~ Walter Lang
Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.
~ Sharon Needles
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
~ Coco Chanel
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
~ Hans Bender
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.
~ William Godwin
Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
~ Ben Carson
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
~ Lactantius
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
~ Lactantius