"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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2/7/12

Quotes on CREATIVITY, SKILLS and TALENTS


"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.” ~Bob Froctor

"Challenges are spices that propel creativity and patience." ~Duoi Ampilan

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." ~Anna Freud

"Creativity, intellect and talent are the main sources of eternal youth." ~Sophia Loren

"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity." ~Charles Mingus

"Creativity is not linear." ~Stephanie Flaxman

"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist." ~Thomas Disch

"Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence." ~Osho

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” ~William Plomer

"Creativity means believing you have greatness." ~Dr. Wayne D. Dwyer

"Creativity means loving whatsoever you do – enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of existence! Maybe nobody comes to know about it. Who is going to praise Paras for cleaning this floor? History will not take any account of it; newspapers will not publish her name and pictures – but that is irrelevant. She enjoyed it. The value is intrinsic." ~Osho

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." ~Norman Podhoretz

"Embrace your talent and pursue it. You won’t believe what you can accomplish.” ~Anon

"Every person come to a place, at one time or another in their maturation, of complete loss or deadness, a stark and frightening absence of creativity or even enthusiasm for creativity, where life seems to have retreated from us like a tide." ~David Whyte (FB on Midlife)

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads." ~Erica Jong

"I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare" ~Maya Angelou

"I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it." ~Sir Ken Robinson

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ~Albert Einstein

"I would define 'hidden art' as the art found in the ordinary areas of everyday life. Each person has, I believe, some talent which is unfulfilled in some hidden area of his being -- a talent which could be expressed and developed." ~Edith Schaeffer, Author, 1971

"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterises children before they are deformed by adult society." ~Jean Piaget

“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.” ~Thomas S. Szasz on Skill

“Learning gives creativity
Creativity leads to thinking
Thinking provides knowledge
Knowledge makes you great.”
~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Loneliness is actually a key ingredient for creativity." ~Hugo Weaving 

"Love is your one, God-given, natural-born, talent that you still need to practice each and every day." ~Robert Clancy

"Memory is a network of brain cells which stretches across different regions of the brain and is constantly being updated. This constant updating is an important function that allows us humans to learn new things and to problem-solve, among other skills." ~Life Coach Code (9 Eyeopening Psychology Facts About You, Others and Reality)

"My creativity is an entity unto its own." ~Carole King

"Sometimes creativity is a compulsion not an ambition." ~Ed Norton

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)

“Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." ~Tina Turner

"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.." ~Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

"The best evidence of human creativity is our trajectory through life." ~Sir Ken Robinson, 1950-2020 (TED)

"The creative adult is the child who has survived." ~Ursula Le Guin

"The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at anytime." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication." ~Michael Faraday

"The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it." ~
Johann von Goethe

"The number one skill in life is not giving up." ~Bryant McGill

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.”~Peggy Orenstein

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." ~Sylvia Plath

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power." ~Honore de Balzac

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)

"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best." ~Bernard Meltzer

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~Henry Van Dyke

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." ~Maya Angelou

"You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills." ~Simon Sinek

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." ~Leo Buscaglia

RELATED QUOTES

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper." ~Robert Frost

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." ~Charles Bukowski

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ~Never Give Up on Yourself

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." ~Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

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