Self-Generation Quotes

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.