ACreativeLife

Christmas . . .

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

Shirley Temple Black - Famouns-Quotes-And-Quotations.com

Tension . . .

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

                Carl Sagan

Technological Change . . .

"Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

                   Albert Einstein

The Sixties . . .

“The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.”

                Ellen DeGeneres

Our Egos . . .

“Our egos tells us we're the only ones that have any kind of feelings. We're the only ones with a relationship. We're the only ones with family. You know, I think that if you kill a spider, there is a relationship that you're ruining. There's a conversation going on outside with the other spiders. 'Did you hear about Chris?....Killed yeah....Sneaker. And now Stephanie has nine hundred babies to raise all alone. Well, she's got her legs full I'll tell you that right now. Chris was so kind, wouldn't hurt a fly. It's just been tough for them lately. They just lost their web last week. Those humans think they're so smart. Let them try shooting silk out of their butt and see what they can make.'”

                Ellen DeGeneres

Get A Dog . . .

"If you want loyalty - get a dog.  If you want loyalty and attention - get a smart dog."   

              Grant Fairley

A.B.C.

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage."

                 Charles Luckman

Ladder of Succcess . . .

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

                Ayn Rand

Freedom . . .

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

                Voltaire

A Million Bucks . . .

"I'm feeling so good.  I feel like a million bucks.  I'm focused.  I'm alert, I'm zippy and top of my game . . . I've never felt better!  I'm sharp as a tack right now.  And what's weird is that I didn't get a good nights sleep last night.  And they say that's the most imporant thing.  Or is it breakfast they said? . . . That's the most important meal of the day, breakfast . . . yes. And then it's 'i' before 'e' I know that . . . Um . . . diamonds are a girl's best friend.  God is a man's best friend . . . What was I talking about? . . . Oh that's right, I feel geat and I'm at the top of my game. And it's odd because I didn't get hardly any sleep last night.  And, they say that's the most important thing."

                Ellen DeGeneres

Godmother . . .

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother.  She calls me God for short, that's cute.  I taught her that."

                 Ellen DeGeneres

Normal . . .

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

               Ellen DeGeneres

Creativity . . .

"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be torn everyday; to feel the sense of self."

             Eric Fromm

I Arise . . .

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day."

                E. B. White

The Art . . .

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

                  Marcus Aurelius

Success . . .

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."

                Jonathan Winters

Heroes . . .

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it's sort of necessary."

                 Ernest Hemingway

Kalaidescope . . .

"Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to shake up their thinking as though their brains are kaleidoscopes, permitting an array of different patterns out of the same bits of reality."

            Rosabeth Moss Kanter
 

Enthusiasm . . .

"Creativity is a natural extension of enthusiasm."

                Earl Nightingale

Chief Enemy . . .

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."

               Pablo Picasso - Spanish artist & painter

Sometimes . . .

"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself.  If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it.  Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

                Tina Turner - American Singer

Chaos . . .

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."

                Nietzsche

Ingenuity . . .

"Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

                 George S. Patton

Creativity . . .

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."

                Norman Podhoretz

Eye of Ignorance . . .

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

                Paul Gauguin

Without Imagination . . .

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it we go nowhere."

                    Carl Sagan

Change . . .

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changes until it is faced."

               James A. Baldwin
 

Regret . . .

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."

               Mason Cooley - O Magazine, April 2004

Positive Thinking . . .

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference, makes a big difference.  The little difference is attitude.  The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

               W. Clement Stone - Best Selling Author, 1902-2002

Epiphany . . .

"An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration.  You always have to be ready for that little artistic ephipany."

                Nick Cave

Deception . . .

"Deception is a cruel act . . . it often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul."

        Donna A. Favors - Member of the Board of Directors, Montgomery Institute, 1955