Top 1200 Creation Myths Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine my work with this commitment to helping dementia? One of the myths is that it's an older person's disease. We're seeing early onset dementia among people at 45. It's the disease of everybody.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by many authors. Some of its myths, like the Star of Bethlehem, are very beautiful. Others are dull and ugly. Some express lofty ideals, such as the parables of Jesus. Others are morally disgusting.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.

The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.