Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.
Interpretation
Creativity is fueled by passion and joy, guiding us toward what we love.
In this quote, Amy Poehler emphasizes the intrinsic connection between creativity and personal passion. She describes how the inner joy and encouragement we feel when engaging in activities we love can inspire and motivate us to create. This 'light' within acts as a guiding force that not only enhances our creative expressions but also helps alleviate feelings of loneliness by connecting us to our true selves and to others.
In practice
During a motivational speech about following your dreams and passion.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.
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