"What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity ..."

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Source : Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.188, Random House

Diane Keaton

#Creativity Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team, if everybody can pick it up a notch, we'll be fine. It's not going to be Brooks coming in saving the day, or myself. It's got to be everybody as a unit playing consistent. If it happens, it's going to be great. It will be something like I've never experienced.”
“Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to.”

Source : John Anthony, Robert Anthony (1984). “The ultimate secrets of total self-confidence”, Berkley
“The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.”
“God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”

Source : John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
“Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.”
“It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.”
“Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.”

Source : Brice Marden (1978). “Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York”
“Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.”

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