{"quotes":[{"text":"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","assault-weapons","believing-in-love","coexistence","compassion","creative-minds","creative-thinking","diversity","drones","empowerment-and-attitude","ending-gun-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","grace","great-power","gun-laws","gun-safety","indviduality","jihad","jihadism-and-love","love-for-humanity","nations","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","people","philosophy-of-compassion","philosophy-of-grace","power","salvation","spirituality","suicide","suicide-bombers","sustainable-living","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","waging-peace","war","wisdom"],"id":8382,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Silence is a beautiful story.","author":"Kulpreet Yadav","tags":["creative-thinking","inspirational","life-lessons","motivational","self-improvement","self-motivation","success"],"id":41733,"author_id":"Kulpreet+Yadav"},{"text":"There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.","author":"William Souder","tags":["brainstorming","creative-thinking","insight","understanding-oneself-and-others","writing-process"],"id":48889,"author_id":"William+Souder"},{"text":"Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.","author":"Rod Judkins","tags":["creative-process","creative-thinking","creativity"],"id":56737,"author_id":"Rod+Judkins"},{"text":"Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["arts-and-humanities","creative-process","creative-reading","creative-thinking","creativity","editing","editing-humor","editors","gadfly","monet","reading","reading-books","writers","writers-world","writing","writing-books"],"id":59038,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["business","business","creative-arts","creative-thinking","creative-thinking-skills","creativity","creativity","daydreamer","daydreamers","daydreaming","film","ideas","ideas","inspiring","motivational","music","music","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru"],"id":94349,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of ‘creation’ from Gods and understand its essence.","author":"Nataša Nuit Pantović","tags":["conscious","creative-mind","creative-thinking","creativity","creativity","mindfulness"],"id":94381,"author_id":"Nata%C5%A1a+Nuit+Pantovi%C4%87"},{"text":"To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.","author":"Steven Pressfield","tags":["creative-thinking","creativity","inspiration","sociology","writing"],"id":98448,"author_id":"Steven+Pressfield"},{"text":"Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["creative","creative-process","creative-thinking","entrepreneurial","entrepreneurs","entrepreneurship","innovation","innovators","invention","inventors","realities","reality","rebels","restriction","restrictions","revel","rewrite","rewriting","start-up","start-ups","startup","startups","thinking-outside-of-the-box","thinking-outside-the-box"],"id":100887,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.","author":"Debra Kaye","tags":["creative-thinking","ideas","innovation","inspirational-attitude"],"id":120439,"author_id":"Debra+Kaye"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}