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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Many of us find that we have squandered our own creative energies by investing disproportionately in the lives, hopes, dreams, and plans of others. — Julia Cameron”
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“Memory is not stored alphabetically in a file cabinet. — Natalie Goldberg”
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“Men are created different. They lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman”
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“Monitoring your daydreaming can be a powerful method for you to understand yourself and your desires. — Cecil Murphey”
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“Most creators use experimentation as a tool for learning how to better create a result. — Robert Fritz”
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“Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw very limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. — Julia Cameron”
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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne”
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“Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident. — Mark Twain”
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde”
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“Nothing pains some people more than having to think. — Martin Luther King Jr”
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“Observation is the basis of everything. — Bill Gilbert”
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“Once in seven years I burn all my sermons. For it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. — John Wesley”
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“Opening your imagination to the ridiculous opens your mind to what you’re not otherwise seeing. In other words, it makes room for the genius to come through. — Beth Brandon”
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“Originality lies in the struggle for authenticity, not eccentricity. — Robert McKee”
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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. — Pablo Picasso”
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“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford”
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“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. — Blaise Pascal”
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“People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined. — Julia Cameron”
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“People from all walks of life, and from all backgrounds, can learn to create, in the same way that they can learn to drive a car, swim, or use a computer. — Robert Fritz”
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“People who avoid all criticism fail. It’s destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“People who don’t have nightmares don’t have dreams. — Robert Paul Smith”
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“Reality is an acquired taste, but it is the best foundation upon which to base your creative process. All else may turn out to be quicksand. — Robert Fritz”
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“Reason is God’s crowning gift to man. — Sophocles (495-406 BC), Antigone, 1.672”
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“Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you’re doing is just plain junk. — Julia Cameron”
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“Tension seeks resolution. The tension is a wonderful force because, as it moves toward resolution, it generates energy that is useful in creating. — Robert Fritz”
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“Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country coast to coast without seeing anything. — Charles Kuralt”
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“The act of creating can bring out the best in people, because it is the natural motivator. — Robert Fritz”
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“The best way to begin the creative process is with a blank sheet of paper. — Robert Fritz”
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. — Linus Pauling”
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“The best way to learn to create is by creating. — Robert Fritz”
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“The broader your emotional memory, the richer your material for inner creativeness. — Constantin Stanislavski”
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“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — C. G. Jung”
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“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), Science and the Modern World, 6”
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“The imagination is maybe the least developed faculty in adults. We let other people do our imagining for us. — Eugene Peterson, Author of The Message”
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“The impossible is often the untried. — Jim Goodwin”
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali”
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“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits that favor that theory. — Andrew Jackson”
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“The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo (14761564), Sonnet”
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“The more you create, the more you are able to create. — Robert Fritz”
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“The more you write, the more you naturally generate ideas. — Robin Hemley”
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