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«A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.»
Author: Dimitri Shostakovich
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artist, composition, compositions, creative, creative work, previous, satisfied, works
«Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?»
Author: Karen Horney
(Psychoanalyst)
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Creative impulse, creative work, impel, impelling, impels, overcompensation, relatively, The Creation, tremendous, work in
«I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.»
«But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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attractive, creative work, owns, possesses, Praise You, repulsive, strangely, wills
«It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
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closely, creative work, examines, hinders
«The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.»
Author: John Updike
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
accidents, actualities, actuality, creative work, presentation, presentations, victim
«The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
adequately, Creative impulse, creative work, directed, Directed By, dominated, fetter, fettered, impulse, in fetters, only if, perform, philosopher, The Philosopher, The Teacher
«Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Advertising,
Managers,
Principles,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
advertising agencies, advertising agency, agency, atmosphere, conclusion, creative work, fourteen, Managing, maverick, mavericks, skittles, The Conclusion
«Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past / they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their ''knowing'' is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is / will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
actual, commanders, creating, creative work, determine, givers, hammer, instrument, laborers, philosophers, philosophical, preliminary, subdued, wherefore, whither
«I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering human being, can not survive without there being something greater than myself, which for me is my whole life- the creative power...I want to paint m»
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