Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

"If you have any areas where you feel trapped and miserable, where your only road out seems to be to escape (and even that is blocked), where the romance of leaving seems to be calling, I invite you to look to renewed purpose as the solution."

"Creativity is not something you just have all the time, you have to set parameters, you have to create barriers or walls or guidelines for yourself to live with so that you could foster a creative life or foster a creative environment."

"We begin at the first and most important part of the creativity cycle: it is what we call visualization, the process of forming a mental image of what you are going to create and how you intend it to look as an end result."

"Having a good routine. Surrounding yourself with positive people or influences. Identifying the positive things in your life and the negative. Fleshing out your mission statement and what it actually means to you."

"Having a purpose fires you up; lack of one leaves you lifeless. It’s an on-off switch for life. You’ll notice those times when you’re really motived by a purpose you come more alive and are more creative."

"It’s best to start with the simplest version of a tool you need and then move up when you’ve mastered it. You’ll learn what features are really needed and when you do move up you’ll appreciate it."

"Your first assignment is this: get a notebook and use it daily while you go through this book. Write in it, draw, explore your ideas, make notes, ask questions, diagram and learn."