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Quotes About Creation

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
~ Michael Cunningham
This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.
~ Michael Cunningham
As most writers know, it's one of the greatest feelings. It's rare and horribly elusive but every now and then, there it is, where you know what to do next and you make something. There's nothing to compare it to."-Michael Cunningham
~ Michael Cunningham
It's time for me to challenge my imagination and to begin the process of shaping an entirely new life. And the best way to do that anywhere in this whole wide opportunity-filled world is to create an exciting new business.
~ Michael E. Gerber
Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created. It understands that without a clear picture of that customer, no business can succeed.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
~ Michael E. Gerber
commodity. Understanding the difference between the two is what creating a great business is all about. Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon and an extraordinarily successful entrepreneur, once said about his company: "In the factory Revlon manufactures cosmetics, but in the store Revlon sells hope." The commodity is cosmetics; the product, hope.
~ Michael E. Gerber
I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.
~ Michael E. Gerber
the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.
~ Michael E. Gerber
the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
~ Michael E. Gerber
I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
~ Michael E. Gerber
How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent. How can I create an expert system rather than hire one?
~ Michael E. Gerber
Entrepreneurship is, first of all, the power to create.
~ Michael E. Gerber
Las empresas existen sólo porque la gente quiere que existan.
~ Michael E. Gerber
Strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position, involving a different set of activities.
~ Michael E. Porter
Tutto ciò che accade tu lo scrivi disse. Tutto ciò che io scrive, accade fu la risposta.
~ Michael Ende
Benim anlayamad???m baÅŸka bir ÅŸey,' diye aç?klamaya çal??t? Bastian. 'Her ÅŸey ancak ben isteyince mi var oluyor, yoksa önceden var da ben onlar? bir biçimde ortaya m? ç?kar?yorum yaln?zca?' 'Her ikisi de,' dedi Graograman.
~ Michael Ende
that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
~ Michael Ende
The ecstasy of creation is when, as an artist, you are one with and totally absorbed in the act. It is the same experience whether it is the act of painting, making music, or writing. The experience really obliterates all other considerations at that moment. The act of re-creating the visual experience o the models in front of me is absolutely absorbing, leaving no room for extraneous thoughts, sexual or otherwise. My routine is my way of controlling hysteria.
~ Michael Kimmelman
the conception of] art as potentially something other than an object made for a pedestal or a wall and passively contemplated. It might be a collective enterprise, a happening. Everyone, and anyone, might participate in making a work of art.
~ Michael Kimmelman
It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
~ Michael Lewis
the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it.
~ Michael Lewis
All good inventions come from something personal," she said. "People create things because it's personal.
~ Michael Lewis