Your Daily Insight as told by Christina Rossetti

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

Your Daily Insight as told by John W. Gardner

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

Your Daily Insight as told by Thomas Edison

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Your Daily Insight as told by Joan Didion

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.

Your Daily Insight as told by Ray Bradbury

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. 

Your Daily Insight as told by Georgia O'Keeffe

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Your Daily Insight as told by Chuck Klosterman

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

Your Daily Insight as told by Khalil Gibran

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Your Daily Insight as told by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Your Daily Insight as told by Coco Chanel

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.