Quotes About Creation

The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.

Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Most people think they need to say "thank you" to the world. But the world is constantly saying "thank you" to you for being alive, for creating new things, new energies, new experiences. Every day give the world at least one more reason to whisper "thank you" to you. If you can hear that whisper, everything else, every gift in life, becomes expected. You earned it. Just take it.

You are the alchemist of your life.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose. You do not need ten such men—one will do.

This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.

alcohol played the midwife

As the influential management thinker Peter Drucker taught, the best—perhaps even the only—way to predict the future is to create it.10

If you are a prospective entrepreneur with the desire to start and build a visionary company but have not yet taken the plunge because you don't have a "great idea," we encourage you to lift from your shoulders the burden of the great-idea myth. Indeed, the evidence suggests that it might be better to not obsess on finding a great idea before launching a company. Why? Because the great-idea approach shifts your attention away from seeing the company as your ultimate creation.

il surplus non esiste fino a che non viene creato dallo stato in embrione. Detto meglio, prima che lo stato riuscisse ad appropriarsi del surplus produttivo, questo veniva «usato» per avere tempo libero dal lavoro e per l'elaborazione culturale.

The voice of him, who made the earth, whispereth in the winds; his breath is the movement of nature!

?uo sam ve? šumu gdje jau?e poput ?ovjeka koji se na?e u nevolji; slušao sam kako vjetar pjeva svoju pjesmu me?u granjem drve?a; slušao sam munju kako praska poput upaljena grmlja, kad bljuje iskre i rašljaste plamenove, i sve mi se to ?inilo tek kao volja Onoga koji drži sve stvari u svojoj ruci.

To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.

The physical marvels of the universe produce little more reflection than the profoundest moral truths. A million of eyes shall pass over the firmament, on a cloudless night, and not a hundred minds shall be filled with a proper sense of the power of the dread Being that created all that is there--not a hundred hearts glow with the adoration that such an appeal to the senses and understanding ought naturally to produce.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

God, A Poem 'I didn't exist at Creation, I didn't exist at the Flood, And I won't be around for Salvation To sort out the sheep from the cud- 'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is In soteriological terms I'm a crude existential malpractice And you are a diet of worms

The lesson here for me was that one sure way to be numbered among the dead would be to set out on a ruthless campaign never to make anything out of anything. The tragic irony of such an endeavor is that, should one succeed, one becomes someone who makes something out of the fact that he never makes anything out of anything! This maze suspiciously resembles the dilemma of the humble person who becomes proud about being humble.

I wonder why they still love me and why I can't love them back and how two normal stable people could have created something like me, lived with something like me, and tolerated something like me.