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Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Ian Vanagas added
that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth (just as lightning does). Furthermore, I was now inclined to believe that ideas also have wit, because what
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
I saw this incident as a rare and glittering piece of evidence that all my most outlandish beliefs about creativity might actually be true—that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I saw this incident as a rare and glittering piece of evidence that all my most outlandish beliefs about creativity might actually be true—that ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Ideas are fascinators that sparkle and dangle in front of the creator, distracting an eager audience from the person behind the curtain. Submitting to the tyranny of ideas gives us the freedom to explore who we are apart from our public reputations. If ideas are living entities that exist separately from our selves, what remains of us?
Nadia Asparouhova • The tyranny of ideas
Emilie Kormienko added
Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
Ian Vanagas and added
Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
David Lynch on ideas:
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other ... See more