When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
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Thomas Keller
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
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Leonardo Da Vinci
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
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Deepak Chopra
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.
