Frank Barron Quotes

#1. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Frank X. Barron

#2. We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

Josh Bowman

#3. Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.

Donna Summer

#4. I'm not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

Robert Taylor

#6. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#7. Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Lee Iacocca

#8. The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

Frank Barron

#9. Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. (As You Like It, Act 3, Sc. 2.)

William Shakespeare

#10. Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

Max Muller

#11. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Frank Barron

#12. The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

Frank Barron

#13. Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born.

Jason Fried

#14. I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

Terry Mosher

#15. Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Frank X. Barron

#16. I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Randy Jackson

#17. Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

Frank X. Barron

#18. A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

Frank Barron

#19. The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

Frank Barron

#20. Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?

George Bernard Shaw

#21. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.

Sandra A. Thomson

#22. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance ...

John Green

#23. Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

Frank Barron

#24. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.

Carson McCullers

#25. The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

Frank Barron

#26. The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory ... and is challenged by such irregularities.

Frank X. Barron

#27. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

Arnold H. Glasow

#28. Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

Holly Black