#in

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

#art

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? ↗

— Gary R. Ryan

#aa #art #art-work #creativity #punishment

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#sin #art

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus. ↗

— John Gardner

#writing #art

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#feminism #writing #art

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#name-calling #technology #art

The artist works by locating the world in himself ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#process #writing #art

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.  ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art