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I believe in creative work.
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
It's nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.
The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.
I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.
Creative work gives you an almost indissoluble connection with people.
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.
It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.
I think anyone who lays a long trail of creative work over the years can't help but look back and wonder, 'What was I thinking?'
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
We love the Vice guys; we believe in them. We're investors. We believe in them, in the creative work that they've done... What they built is incredible.
We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.
I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
There were moments in 'Malala,' I felt very moved by the storytelling, and 'pleased' would be the wrong word, but the music could be part of what moved me: that I was trying to contribute to something that was meaningful outside the realm of creative work but just more in terms of the world.