"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."
- Vanilla Sky via Penelope Cruz via Cameron Crowe

Language

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys—to woo women—and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.
— Dead Poets Society (1989)

(via Kris Ex @ http://disposablegenius.tumblr.com/post/5075789884/so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-its-lazy)

The Truly Creative Mind

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create—so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. — Pearl S. Buck

(via Kris Ex @ http://disposablegenius.tumblr.com/post/5576721990/the-truly-creative-mind-in-any-field-is-no-more)

Contract II

No sell.
No spin.
No hidden agenda.

Creative Control by Ricky Gervais

"I’m a complete fascist—and you should be in art. I don’t think I’m the best producer or director or actor in the world, but I know how I want it done. I don’t try to please anyone except myself. If people like what I do, fantastic. If they don’t, that’s good, too. If you start trying to water it down or second-guess, you end up with something so safe and homogenized that a lot of people will like it, but they won’t love it. I’ve always preferred to do something that really moves a million people rather than something that washes over 10 million. The more successful you get, the more hated you are, but you should relish that, because it means you're making a connection. And that’s the point of art."

Contract

My words.
No sell.
No spin.

Mohawk

"We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other's hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall upon it, it could not shake nor break it, so that our people and grandchildren shall remain in the circle in security, peace and happiness." Mohawk chief Hiawatha

Today's Formula

Create freely.
Act wisely.
Smile. A lot.

Humble pie. Doesn't taste good. But it's good for you.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

I could not have imagined it better myself...