Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

We are all Michaelangelos.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

All men are poets at heart.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.