#ration

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #challenges #confidence #conflict-resolution #courage

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#creativity #inspirational #age

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#distraction #p #art

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

#artist #creative-process #creativity #ideas #inspiration

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. ↗

— Dan Millman

#faith #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #leanring #life

...Your time is limited. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Above all, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.... ~ Steve Jobs ~ ↗

— Steve Jobs

#courage

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#great-minds #life #madmen #purpose-of-life #rationality

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is. ↗

— Julien Smith

#anxiety #courage #courageous #facing-fear #fear

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#beautiful-chaos #creative-process #creativity #heartbreak #inspiration

Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are. ↗

— Jordan Christy

#motivational #art