Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

Carlos Castaneda

It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Aaron Swartz

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Russell Hancock

We have repositioned ourselves in a fiercely competitive global economy. Creativity is the key word.

Herbie Hancock

The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in order to do that we have to go to the second level which is to work on defining the palette of what a better human being is made of, and creativity is one of them.

Brian Eno

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

Charlotte Bronte

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

Charlotte Bronte

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Richard G. Scott

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

Trai Byers

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Brian Weiss

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

Djuna Barnes

Destiny and history are untidy.

David Brooks

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

Darren Shan

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Darren Shan

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Baldwin Spencer

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Cameron Mackintosh

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Bertrand Russell

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Chuck Pagano

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .