by Kristene O'Dell | Jan 4, 2019 | Creative Personality
“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” ~ Bernard Meltzer This ends our series on the Creative Personality. I thought...
by Kristene O'Dell | Jan 1, 2019 | Creative Personality
I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So, if the characters are human and real enough, then...
by Kristene O'Dell | Dec 27, 2018 | Creative Personality
“I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.” ~ Leo Baekeland I read an interesting...
by Kristene O'Dell | Dec 11, 2018 | Creative Personality
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus Continuing the discussion on personality profiles, psychologists typically agree that there are only five measurable traits that...
by Kristene O'Dell | Nov 30, 2018 | Creative Personality
“You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.” ~ Ryan Lilly I am about to start writing a book. The main premise reads something like this: How creatives can overcome and be healed from the...
by Kristene O'Dell | Nov 23, 2018 | Creative Personality
“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my...
