Creative Energy – Page 2

Great fear, conformity, immorality:

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. David McCallum

I’ll force myself to

I’ll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I’ll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I’ll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to … Read more

Within the heart of

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy. Daisaku Ikeda

A man who is

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative … Read more

A creative man is

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand

I wrote three novels

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania. Ayelet Waldman

When I speak of

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives. Audre Lorde

Growing up in Malaysia

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn’t an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV. Arvind Ethan David

I don’t write as

I don’t write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more – times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way. Arlo Guthrie