Shaun Mcniff Quotes

#1. A life, whose purpose is money, is death.

Albert Camus

#2. A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Shaun McNiff

#3. Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day."
"I think I have some idea."
"I have thought every day about you - your loss. And every day, I only saw how I would make things worse if I were here."
"And I only thought of ways you would have made it better.

Tarun Shanker

#4. Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Shaun McNiff

#5. Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

Shaun McNiff

#6. Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Shaun McNiff

#7. So I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way's pretty hard, but not so hard as the easy way. I learned.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Shaun McNiff

#9. It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
there is no end in sight.

Shaun McNiff

#10. Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.

Shaun McNiff

#11. There are no shadows in our family," Paul said. "We don't hide anything. But that's a tough place to get to. It takes work and it's painful.

Donald Miller

#12. The volcra, the nichevo'ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster, too.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

Shaun McNiff

#14. Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Shaun McNiff

#15. Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.

Jimmy Fallon

#16. We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

Shaun McNiff

#17. Creativity cannot flourish and reach its deepest potential without the participation of its demons as well as its angels.

Shaun McNiff