Creating Quotes

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

~ Ryan Lilly

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library

~ Phillip Lopate

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness.

~ A.d. Posey

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

~ Bill Watterson

The electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) industries are creating an increasingly high radiation environment for the human. This is comparable to the elevated radiation environment found at high altitudes and smart health researchers would be wise to contrast high altitude diseases to the epidemics of our time, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), and so on.

~ Steven Magee

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.

~ Stephen King

All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of their mind. Nature intended for human beings to live in an enthusiastic and curious manner, always exploring, striving, and creating.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

~ Fernando Pessoa

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Take full control by creating a life of true bliss through utilising the Power of The Heart.

~ Steven Redhead

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

~ Richie Norton

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

~ Nikolai Gogol

His world was small, an illiterate county seat, a backward state, though from it he fashioned something greater, far greater perhaps than he ever knew. A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.

~ James Salter

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there's only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year old would find tedious, and the entire Human Race will probably be nonexistant a 100 years later, but - you know - i have no idea what else to do. I like creating. What else can i do?

~ Martijn Benders

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

~ Orson Welles

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.

~ Katherine Catmull

Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.

~ Ramsey Isler

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

~ Jane Yolen

Empowered Women 101: A confident and faithful woman that loves herself and knows what she is capable of creating will attract the right man that will want to be part of that plan. God won't bring her a man that she has to mold into what she wants him to be. A relationship is about two people helping one another grow, not just one.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

~ Paulo Coelho

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

~ Steven Redhead

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

~ John Hersey

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

~ Alfred Edward Perlman

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

~ Karl Marx

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

~ Anonymous

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

~ Gail Sheehy

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves What will happen if ... ? or better still How can we make it happen?

~ Lisa Taylor

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

New things cannot come where there is no room.

~ Mario Morgan

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

~ Charles Du Bos

When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.

~ Tuli Kupferberg

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

~ Hyemeyohsts Storm