Joseph Zinker Quotes

#1. Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Joseph C Zinker

#2. Excellent anthology ... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs ...

Joseph C Zinker

#3. We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Jerry Moran

#4. The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.

Terryl L. Givens

#5. Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

Joseph C Zinker

#6. It is in [the] process of making something ... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Joseph C Zinker

#7. The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.

Derek Landy

#8. It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

Carlos Castaneda

#9. In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

Joseph C Zinker

#10. The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Joseph C Zinker

#11. Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Mason Cooley

#12. The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

Myles Munroe

#13. All creative activity begins with movement.

Joseph C Zinker

#14. Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

Joseph C Zinker

#15. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Samuel Johnson

#16. Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.

Wayne W. Dyer

#17. No matter where you are or who you're with, don't forget to smile. A smile makes the world go round. It becomes your strength and confidence in this world. Because that's the secret to true beauty.

Jo Ah-ra

#18. Creativity is a celebration of life ... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

Joseph C Zinker

#19. Not many of us serve in the Jesus Way. I don't. In fact, I don't see many people in the churches that do. Most of us do fairly worldly jobs in church and call them "service" and adopt a worldly role and call it "servant.

Christy Wimber

#20. There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.

Henning Mankell

#21. During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

Joseph C Zinker

#22. When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

Johnny Gimble