Be Careful What You Say To Your

Integrity Means Congruence. Words And Behavior Match.

It Is Generally Recognized That Creativity Requires Leisure, An Absence Of Rush, Time For The Mind And Imagination To Float And Wander And Roam, Time For The Individual To Descend Into The Depths Of His Or Her Psyche, To Be Available To Barely Audible Signals Rustling For Attention. Long Periods Of Time May Pass In Which Nothing Seems To Be Happening. But We Know That Kind Of Space Must Be Created If The Mind Is To Leap Out Of Its Accustomed Ruts, To Part From The Mechanical, The Known, The Familiar, The Standard, And Generate A Leap Into The New.

If You Are Terrified Of Making Mistakes, You Will Be Reluctant To Acknowledge Them When You Do Make Them-and Therefore You Will Not Correct Them.

Innovators And Creators Are Persons Who Can To A Higher Degree Than Average Accept The Condition Of Aloneness. They Are More Willing To Follow Their Own Vision, Even When It Takes Them Far From The Mainland Of The Human Community. Unexplored Places Do Not Frighten Them- Or Not, At Any Rate, As Much As They Frighten Those Around Them. This Is One Of The Secrets Of Their Power. That Which We Call Genius Has A Great Deal To Do With Courage And Daring, A Great Deal To Do With Nerve.

It Is Naive To Think That Self-assertiveness Is Easy. To Live Self-assertively--which Means To Live Authentically--is An Act Of High Courage. That Is Why So Many People Spend The Better Part Of Their Lives In Hiding--from Others And Also From Themselves.