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Quotes.
We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


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  A. Einstein   "Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, find opportunity."
  Rumi   "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."
  Sheldon Kopp   "Perfection is a goal that guarantees failure."
  Shaun McNiff   "It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
  there is no end in sight."
  Shaun McNiff   "The discipline of creation is a mixture of surrender and initiative."
  Duke Ellington   "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
  Scott Adams   "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
  Margaret Atwood   "When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
  May Sarton   "You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything aside when I am inspired."
  Yosa Buson   "Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room."
  Henri Poincare   "Often nothing good id accomplished at the first attack. One takes a rest, and then all of a sudden the   decisive idea presents itself to the mind."
  Donald Baecheler   "I am interested in a sort of suspension of meaning in pictures."
  Shaun McNiff   "The creative spirit demands persistence."
  Charles Buxton   "You never find time for anything. You must make it."
  Arthur Koestler   "Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality."
  Louis Malle   "I believe the best part of your work has to be unconscious."
  Cathy Malchiodi   "I see art making as a way to tell me where I am in my own life story."
  Unknown   "The poorest person is not the one without a cent, but the one without a dream."
  Stephanie Shapiro   "As a modifier, as the modified, as a noun or a verb, cool has withstood the fleeting nature of most slang."
  Abraham Maslow    "The concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing fully human person, seem
  to be coming closer and closer together, and may turn out to be the same thing."
  Shaun McNiff    "We live within the process of creation just as much as it exists within us."
  Paul Gauguin    "Go on working freely and furiously and you will make progress."
  David White    "There is a small opening in the day that closes when you begin to plan."
  Umberto Boccioni    "There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation."
  Alice Walker    "Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception,"
  Eric Maisel    "Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity."
  Eric Maisel     "I affirm - simply, surely, and unequivocally - that I am a creative person."
  Oscar Wilde     "It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun."
  Tina Paulus     "How does one become a butterfly?" she asked. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to
   give up being a caterpillar."
  Robert Genn     "Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within."
  Unknown    "Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled."
  Clyde Moore    "There is one good thing about snow. It makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's."
  Unknown    "Where does the white go when snow melts?"
  Unknown    "A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together."
  Eric Maisel    "Have goals and faithfully serve them in a way that honors the process."
  Yehudi Menuhin    "Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?"
  Deborah Aquila    "Keep spiritually sound and be persistent. Persistence is the key. Just never stop believing in your dream. "
  Albert Einstein    "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
  Annie Dillard    "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
  Emily Dickinson    "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
  George Eliot    "The finest language is mostly made up of simple, unimposing words."
  Marcellimus Ammianus    "The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."
  Anonymous    "Words have meaning and names have power."
  Cato the Elder    "Grasp the subject. The words will follow."
       
     

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