Norman R. Augustine Quotes

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

I like the inspiration of the first take.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.