Quotes About Being Creative

Michelangelo
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

John F. Kennedy
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

General George Smith Patton, Jr.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

W. Arthur Porter
The innovate point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

Franklin Roosevelt
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen

William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower... hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour...

George Kneller
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Define Creative

cre•a•tive (kr - t v) adj.
1. Having the ability or power to create: Human beings are creative animals.
2. Productive; creating.
3. Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative: creative writing

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

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Find Your Joy

I seldom saw Sara smile. She went about her job day-in and day-out without skipping a beat. Walking toward her, I never knew what she was thinking. She had perfected a cool, imperturbable manner that revealed nothing about her true feelings and made her hard to fathom. I decided that I was going to make it my daily goal to make her laugh out loud at work. You need to understand that up to this point I had never heard her laugh or even express the slightest amusement. It took many days before I was able to get my first out-loud laugh out of Sara. When she finally did, it made me laugh with joy and my laughter encouraged her to laugh louder. From that point on, although I wasn't able to get a response out of her every day, it began to happen more and more regularly.

To get Sara to laugh, I needed to get to know her and to be interested in what she liked and didn’t like. I found out that Sara had a crush on one of the men at our workplace, so I encouraged her to pursue her desires. As a result, Sara started to smile more and more. People began to interact with her because she wasn’t always looking down and frowning. Throughout this time, Sara herself initiated some changes. Unbeknownst to anyone, she joined Jenny Craig and slowly began to lose a bunch of weight. She had a make-over and started to wear make-up, got her hair cut into a new, attractive style, and with her new slimmer shape, she needed a new wardrobe. It would be great to be able to tell you that this all had a fairy-tale ending and that Sara and the focus of her crush ended up together, but such is not the case. The young man turned out to be very shallow and could only see himself with a tall, long legged blond. However, taking into consideration what he himself had to offer, perhaps there is some justice in the fact that this didn't happen for him and still hasn’t happened.

Now, not for a moment is the point of this story that because I encouraged her to laugh everyday her life changed. Sara needed to discover what was important to her, what she wanted for herself, and then to start moving toward whatever that was. It happened that God allowed me to be there at the time she was ready to make some changes and I was able to encourage her to understand that she has value, just because she is who she is. Sara needed to grab hold of that fact. Because she was willing to look at her life and make some changes, she found her joy inside.

Makes Your Soul Sing

What makes you come alive? What makes your soul sing at just the thought? Find time to do it. Your heart and soul will thank you in ways you can’t imagine. This could be a small thing, one thing or many things. Whatever it is for you, perhaps knowing this is a signal you need to consider a change in your life direction, or that you should seriously contemplate the idea of a career change.

If you don’t know what brings you joy, it may be because you haven’t met yourself.
Step 1 – Purchase a blank book of your choice
• You can use a three-ring binder with three-hole punched paper, pockets, sheet protectors, and perhaps cardstock. These items can be used to include special material and glue or insert magazine pictures
• A blank spiral notebook
• A blank hardback journal
• There are sources for blank journals of all sizes, styles, and price ranges under the Resources section at www.CharacterTakesCourage.com.

Step 2 – Answer the following twenty questions in your book.
For each question also write out why you answered the way you did. This is an important part of this step.
1. What is your favorite color?
2. What is your favorite food? (Remember to write about why for each answer)
3. What is your favorite time of year?
4. Do you like the beach, mountains, desert, high country, coast, prairie, or what?
5. Do you like the weather to be hot or cold?
6. What is your favorite style of clothes to wear?
7. Is there a sport you like to watch or participate in?
8. Do you like a lot of people in your home or do you like solitude? (Remember to write about why for each answer)
9. Do you have many friends or just a few close friends?
10. Would you prefer to talk to someone on the phone, write a letter, or send an email, or text message?
11. How do you feel about each of your family members? Pick at least one word to describe each of your family relationship. Write one paragraph about each person.
12. Are you a morning person? Or do you come alive at night-time?
13. What is one item you can’t live without daily? (Remember to write about why)
14. What style(s) of music do you like?
15. Are you organized or disorganized in general? What is in the back seat of your car look like right now?
16. Do you like animals? What kind?
17. What makes you cry? (Remember to write about why)
18. What makes you laugh?
19. Are you the life of the party or do you prefer to enjoy a party by having a good conversation with one or two people?
20. How do you want to be remembered? (Remember to write about why)