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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

Creativity, Creative, Name

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
David Lynch

Life, Humor, Ignorance

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Art, Strange

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold

Alone, Integrity, Moment

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Time, Today, Mind

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
Jeff Bridges

Love, Heart, Philosophy

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Mother, Expect

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka

Free, Support, Spirit

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
Buddy Rich

Freedom, Everything, Write

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
Denis Leary

Funny, Money, Important

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

Reality, Real, Subtle

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.
Hugh Jackman

Important, Start, Less

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David

Funny, Truth, Feeling

Everything for me becomes allegory.
Charles Baudelaire

Everything, Allegory

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter

Disease, Aggression, Contagious

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Experience, Living, Nation

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
Abu Bakr

Interest, Muslim

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis

Human, Whether, Task

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine of Hippo

Soon, Necessity, Habit

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

Sports, Angry, Him

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian Eno

Religion, Forget, Through

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
Brian Eno

Music, Time, Once

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
Brian Eno

Once, Accept, System

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Life, Rich, Energy

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. Cioran

Future, Act, Almost

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Different, Sense, Everyone

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman

War, Patriotism, Hatred

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
Billy Corgan

Life, Good, Place

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

God, Through, Free

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