We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

“We run the hills and try to get on the local tracks whenever we get the chance to. But that's kind of the tradition with St. Albert, being creative with workouts and doing the best with what we have.”

“It is great to see recruiting innovation and creativity getting official recognition from the industry. The winners this evening are pushing talent acquisition to the next level, and the fruits of their efforts are starting to show up on the bottom line.”

“We appear to use memory systems often in our default states. This may help us to plan and solve problems. Maybe it helps us be creative. But it may also have metabolic consequences.”

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

“It's confusing because there are multiple ways to do high def and there's no industry standard. I wish it were a clearer, more user- friendly situation. There are so many options and creative ways.”

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks.

“To do a color like this, two hours doesn't give me enough time to be creative and give my clients the time they deserve. Clients feel stressed about it. They're always watching the clock.”