Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.
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