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创造
Creation
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
恢复一种精神传统，在这种精神传统中，创造和对创造的研究是至关重要的，这将开创精神和科学之间的新可能性，从而形成文化、制度和人民的范例。
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
它是组成整体的各个部分的总和，所以在我看来，一个人的优秀来自于他如何去做一件事。这一切都始于思维过程——这是一种创造性的、崇高的、能产生一些与众不同的东西的思维过程。
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
我认为我的想象力决定了我使用的技术。但与此同时，我的想象力可以是技术性的。有时我看到一个工具，我马上知道如何使用它，但大多数时候，我使用这个工具是为了一个我已经有了的想法。
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
当我现在写作的时候，我没有创造情境、人物或动作，而是创造结构和散乱的形式，文本的分组是根据它们之间的秘密相似性组合起来的，就像在建筑或造型艺术中一样。
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
政治和社会活动也必须有效，但不是以一种非常明显的方式。但是政治上的混乱和长期的和平无疑会影响创造性思维，但它们究竟是阻碍还是有助于创造性思维则完全不确定。
To create forms means: to live. Are not children more creative in drawing directly from the secret of their sensations than the imitator of Greek forms? Are not savages artists who have forms of their own powerful as the form of thunder?
创造形式意味着:生活。难道孩子们在直接从他们的感觉的秘密中汲取灵感方面，不比模仿希腊形式的人更有创造力吗?野蛮人的艺术家不也有他们自己强大的形式，如雷电的形式吗?
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
放下一张桌子的表意文字，让人们把它认出来，这并不是画家的作品，而是画家想象的开始。
The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions.
大多数头脑风暴会议产生的想法通常是肤浅的、琐碎的，而且不是很有创意。它们很少有用。然而，这个过程似乎让缺乏创造力的人觉得他们在做出创新的贡献。
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
创造一个世界，在这个世界里这些事物存在或不存在，或者它们以某种方式被扩展。用现实来检验这个虚构。读者会认出你所谈论的世界，即使它可能完全是另一个世界。
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
艺术是神奇的……但它是怎么变魔术的呢?在形而上学的发展中?或者最终的转变会在一个神奇的现实中达到高潮?事实上，没有前者，后者是不可能的。如果创造不是魔法，结果也不可能是魔法。
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
如果我们考虑的不是对象，而是创建对象的过程，简而言之，我们没有约束。我们手中掌握的过程，让我们能够创造出各种规模的结构，这些结构曾经是我们做梦也想不到的。
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
动力的一个非常重要的方面是愿意停下来，去看那些别人懒得看的东西。这种简单的专注于通常被认为是理所当然的事情的过程是创造力的强大源泉。
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Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
绘画做了我们不能做的事——它把一个三维世界带入一个二维平面。
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
当想象力不得不与理解分开时，它是一件可怜的事情。
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
在你头脑的任何一个角落留下一个空白，你的创造力就会立刻填补它。
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
并不是说创造性行为和批判性行为是同时发生的。这更像是你脱口而出，然后分析它。
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
快乐只是创造性情感实现其目的的标志。