Treffinger Creative Problem Quotes & Sayings

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that. — Ice Cube

I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me that ... Then I thought to myself, 'You know, I've never met a writer who wanted to be anything else. They might bitch about something they're writing or about their poverty, but they never say they want to quit ... and if they do abandon it they become crazy, drunk or suicidal.' Writing is elemental. — Natalie Goldberg

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. — Elon Musk

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. — Jeanette Winterson

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana

Recently a young woman was gang-raped in a university in Nigeria, and the response of many young Nigerians, both male and female, was something like this: 'Yes, rape is wrong, but what is a girl doing in a room with four boys?'
Let us, if we can, forget the horrible inhumanity of that response. These Nigerians have been raised to think of woman as inherently guilty. And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That's the whole point, after all: There's no going back. — Lauren Oliver

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out. — Susan Hill

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out. — Leigh Newman

One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit. — Keri Smith