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创造
Creation
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
我认为节俭推动创新，就像其他约束一样。走出困境的唯一方法之一就是创造出路。
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
没有这种幻想，就没有任何创造性的作品诞生。我们欠发挥想象力的债是无法计算的。
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
我希望，每一次作为一名作家，我都能重塑我自己，重塑我正在做的事情。这是这份工作最大的乐趣和回报之一。
One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.
一个真正有创造力的人可以抹去他们的过去，代之以无数的过去，为未来创造新的可能性。
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
由于新的发展是创造性思维的产物，因此我们必须以一切可能的方式刺激和鼓励这种思维。
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
上帝创造，我不创造。我聚集在一起，到处偷东西——从我看到的，从舞者能做的，从其他人能做的。
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
那些不能创造和改造自己的人，必须满足于借来的姿态，二手的想法，适应而不是脱颖而出。
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
写作确实是一门创造性的艺术——把文字写在一张白纸上，以一个充满人物和情节的完整故事结尾。
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
想象力是不朽者和不成熟者的最大乐趣，应该加以限制。为了享受生活，我们不应该享受它太多。
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
每一天，以及每一天的生活，都必须是有意识的创造，在这种创造中，纪律和秩序通过一些游戏和纯粹的愚蠢得以放松。
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
我不明白的是，为什么人们经常听到关于人类劳动成果的讨论，就好像它是某个外星种族创造出来的一样。
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
如果你在处理一个音乐剧，你想要讲一个故事，它必须听起来像演讲。同时它必须是一首歌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
画家画的是事物的表象，而不是它们客观的正确性，事实上他创造的是事物的新表象。
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。
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
是时候把句子和泥土、阳光和标点符号、雨水和动词混在一起了。
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
每一个创造的行为首先都是毁灭的行为。
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
独创性意味着敢于超越公认的规范。
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
没有想象力，就没有创造力。没有创造力，就没有一切。