Joseph Zinker Quotes

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

Myles Munroe

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Wayne W. Dyer

#9. 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

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

Joseph C Zinker

#11. All creative activity begins with movement.

Joseph C Zinker

#12. 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

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

Mason Cooley

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Derek Landy

#18. 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

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

Joseph C Zinker

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

Terryl L. Givens

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

Jerry Moran

#22. 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