The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
—David Emerald
I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds,
to open the immortal Eyes of Man
Inwards into the Worlds of Thought;
Into eternity, ever expanding
In the Bosom of God,
The Human Imagination
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
War is the trade of Kings.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
They made the fatal decision: they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
—Frank Herbert (1920–86) American Science Fiction Writer
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st American President
There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist
Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer
In war, truth is the first casualty.
—Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright
When everyone dreams but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
—Alexander Claud Cockburn (1941–2012) Irish American Political Journalist
Rich people work hard and believe it’s perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Yes; quaint and curious a war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half a crown.
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English Novelist, Poet
Cry “havoc!” and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
You can’t say that civilization don’t advance… for in every war they kill you a new way.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
With civilized men…, it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
—Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher
Bringing Home The Boys has been a top objective of Americans ever since we first sent some of them overseas decades ago. At the close of World War I the phrase flowered, though I’ll bet it was used in connection with the Spanish American War. Probably even before that, when Americans stormed the forts outside Mexico City in 1847. Thank God we’re doing so again from Vietnam. But the Return of Americans shouldn’t be confined to battle zones. We are neither wanted, nor needed, nor should we be in large numbers in such places as Germany, Korea, Thailand, Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Spain and so on, ad nauseam.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
I am for anything in this world that keeps the problem of finding a substitute for war in people’s minds.
—Ida Tarbell (1857–1944) American Reform Journalist, Biographer
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
One ought never to allow a disorder to take place in order to avoid war, for war is not thereby avoided, but only deferred to your disadvantage.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
They must be cool but determined…he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
—David McCullough (1933–2022) American Historian
Every moment of our lives we are either growing or dying—and it’s largely a choice, not fate. Throughout its life cycle, every one of the body’s trillions of cells is driven to grow and improve its ability to use more of its innate yet untapped capacity. Research biologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, called this syntropy, which he defined as the “innate drive in living matter to perfect itself”. It turns conventional thinking upside down…As living cells—or as people—there is no staying the same. If we aim for some middle ground or status quo, it’s an illusion—beneath the surface what’s actually happening is we’re dying, not growing. And the goal of a lifetime is continued growth, not adulthood. As Rene Dubos put it, “Genius is childhood recaptured”. For this to happen, studies show that we must recapture—or prevent the loss of—such child-like traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore. It’s time to rescue ourselves from our grown-up ways before it’s too late.
—Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat
He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
—Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,—is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
—John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
—John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson