Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
Live life by the abc’s . . . adventure, bravery, creativity.
James Thurber (1894-1961) was an American author, cartoonist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio.
Carrying on the light of others is just as valuable as creating it yourself.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American author who became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for her novel, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Alan Alda (born 1936) is an American actor, writer, and director. His is well-known for his role as Captain Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce in the award-winning sitcom of “M*A*S*H” from 1972-1983.
The greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
John H. Johnson (1918-2005) was an American businessman and publisher.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brene Brown (born 1965) is an American researcher and author. Much of her work has studied courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
Creativity is the art of the impossible.
Ben Okri (born 1959) is a Nigerian-born poet and novelist. Much of his writing focuses on African post-modern and post-colonial traditions.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932 at the age of 44, he was laid off from his business executive position because of the Great Depression’s economic downturn. This opened a door for his next career move as he pursued writing detective fiction novels.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author who achieved success in the realm of science fiction as well as fantasy.
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists–with it all things are possible.
We were raising our standard of living a the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) was an American writer and investigative journalist. She was one of the leading muckrakers during the progressive era during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
American professor of literature, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), was also a prolific writer about many aspects of the human experience. His best known book was The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949).
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