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A wise woman keeps her psychic environ uncluttered. She accomplishes such by keeping a clear head, keeping a clear place for her work, working at completing her ideas and projects.18
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Creative Psychology involves the highest form of creativity of which man is capable, the creation of a truly inner-directed being out of a helpless other-directed slave.
Robert S. de Ropp • The Master Game
Whatever else happens, stay busy. (I always lean on this wise advice, from the seventeenth-century English scholar Robert Burton, on how to survive melancholy: “Be not solitary, be not idle.”) Find something to do—anything, even a different sort of creative work altogether—just to take your mind off your anxiety and pressure. Once, when I was strug
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy’s reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won’t be there anymore. The walls of the school will fall away, and you’ll be on your own. The hours that you will then put into practice, study, auditions, and creation will b
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
... See moreThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is
Jordan Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity
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What I have to do is go back to my beginner’s mind, trying as much as possible to get rid of all my assumptions, the usual pat thoughts, the confusions I have, the conclusions that cause me to contrive direction in the story.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
in her 1938 classic, If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland declares aimless attention essential to good work and deep thought: So you see the imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering. These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas… bu
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