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创造
Creation
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
那些不经意间出现在我们头脑中的想法，可以说是我们所有的思想中最有价值的。
‘Do you know who made you?’ ‘Nobody, as I knows on,’ said the child... I ’spect I grow. Don’t think nobody never made me.’
“你知道是谁创造了你吗?”“据我所知，没有人，”孩子说……我想我长大了。别以为从来没有人逼过我。”
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
我生活中最大的乐趣就是每天早上起床后就冲到打字机前，因为我突然想到了一个新点子。
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
写作是一种魔力，就像任何其他创造性艺术一样，是生命之水。水是免费的。所以喝。喝吧，喝饱了。
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
我的梦想一直是当我写作的时候把自己悬浮在空间里，而平躺在床上是最接近的。
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
我在写初稿，提醒自己，我只是把沙子铲进一个盒子里，这样以后我就可以建造城堡了。
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
写作是一种极端的特权，但也是一种天赋。这是给自己的礼物，也是给别人讲故事的礼物。
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
创造一些东西，卖掉它，让它变得更好，再多卖一些，然后创造一些东西来淘汰你以前做的东西。
The worst crime is to leave a man’s hands empty. Men are born makers, with that primal simplicity in every maker since Adam.
最可怕的罪行是让一个人两手空空。人类是天生的创造者，自亚当以来的每一个创造者都具有这种原始的简单性。
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
一个人不应该因为他能成为艺术家，而是因为他必须成为。它只适合那些没有它会很痛苦的人。
The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.
我们在组织中最害怕的事情——波动、干扰、不平衡——是创造力的主要来源。
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
为一幅画画画通常意味着做一些非常粗略和示意图，然后使它抛光。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
当实干家关心把事情做好或做得更好时，任何活动都会变得富有创造性。
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
摄影不仅仅是一种传播思想的媒介。这是一种创造性的艺术。
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
有创造性活动的感觉是最大的幸福，是活着的最大证明。
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
真正的炼金术士不会把铅变成金子;他们把世界变成了文字。
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
建构与创造的全部区别就在于:一个被建构的事物只有在被建构之后才能被爱;但是创造出来的东西在它存在之前就已经被爱了。
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
创造了一千种东西的人和没有创造任何东西的人，都有一个共同的愿望:创造一些东西。