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Psychologists and psychiatrists about creativity
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910), American psychologist and philosopher
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
In the dim background of our mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
William James
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously–that is, which he invests with large amounts of emotion–while separating it sharply from reality. Language has preserved this relationship between children’s play and poetic creation.
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 –September 23, 1939), Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist
The unreality of the writer’s imaginative world, however, has very important consequences for the technique of his art; for many things which, if they were real, could give no enjoyment, can do so in the play of fantasy, and many excitements which, in themselves, are actually distressing, can become a source of pleasure for the hearers and spectators at the performance of a writer’s work.
Sigmund Freud
…a piece of creative writing, like a day-dream is a continuation of and a substitute for what was once the play of childhood.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) William Stern (1871- 1938) Joy Guilford (1897-1987)
Ariana Grande. Short Biography and Best Pictures
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande-Butera
born June 26, 1993, Boca Raton, Florida, US
Nationality: United States of America
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Singers
Specification: Pop, R&B.
Unique distinction: Ariana Grande is pop music sensation and a highly admired singer and actor today. She is famous as Cat Valentine in “Victorious” (2010 – 2013) (TV).
Height: 5’ 3” (159 cm); Weight: 104 Lbs (47 kg).
Measurements: 32-24-33,5 (US) or 81-61-85 cm (EU) (2018).
Charlize Theron -Short Biography and Best Pictures
CHARLIZE THERON
(August 7, 1975, Benoni, South Africa)
Nationality: South Africa, United States
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Actress, Producer, director, model
Specification: First African to win an Oscar for Best Actress (Monster, 2003)
Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Gender: Female
Height: 5′ 9½” (1.77 m)
Weight: 135 lbs (61.2 kg)
Measurements: 36B-24-36 (US); 91,4-61-91 сm (EU).
Her father is of French descent and her mother of German descent
French Ancestry Paternal side German Ancestry Maternal side
She became an American citizen in 2007.
Los Angeles and Malibu,, California
Domestic partner: Stuart Townsend (2001 – 2010)
Son: Jackson Theron (b.November 2011) adopted in March 2012
Her first language is Afrikaans, she has a green eyes and Danced professionally.
Has her own charity called the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project She is involved in women’s rights organizations and is a supporter of animal rights
Aword: On September 30, 2005, Theron received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Won Oscar. Another 30 wins & 32 nominations
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her portrayal of serial killer in Monster (2003)
Robert De Niro-Short Biography and the Best Pictures
ROBERT DE NIRO
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr.
(17 August 1943, New York, New York)
Nationality: United States, Italy
Category: Celebrities
Occupation: Actor, director, producer
Specification: iconic American film actor, two-time Academy Award-winning
Major Genres: drama, comedy, crime
Gender: Male
Height: 5′ 9½” (1.77 m)
Spouse: Grace Hightower (m. 1997), he has 6 children. (daughter Helen Grace Hightower De Niro, b. 23 Dec. 2011)
Home town: Manhattan, New York
Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival
First Major Screen Credit: Greetings (1968)
Career Highlights: Brazil (1985), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990)
Academy Awards: for Best Supporting Actor (1974) for The Godfather Part II, for Best Actor (1981) for Raging Bull
Nominated: Best Actor, Taxi Driver (1976); The Deer Hunter (1978); Awakenings (1990); Cape Fear (1991).
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor: New York, New York (1977), Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000, with Ben Stiller).
Other Major works:
Directed: A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006, starred Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie).
Cleopatra: Iconic Female Ruler’s Representation in Art
CLEOPATRA
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
(69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) (aged 39)
Nationality: Ancient Egypt
Category: Figures
Occupation: Ruler
Specification: The most ever famous queens of all times in ancient Egypt, the first ruler of the dynasty to learn Egyptian, the last Pharoah of Egypt.
Gender: Female
Reign: 51 BC–12 August 30 BC
Co-rulers: Ptolemy XIII (51 BC–47 BC)
Ptolemy XIV (47 BC–44 BC)
Caesarion (44 BC–30 BC)
Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in the film “Caesar and Cleopatra” (1945).
Gustav Fechner – Founder of psychophysics
Gustav Theodor Fechner
(April 19, 1801, Groß Särchen, near Muskau, Lower Lusatia, (now Żarki Wielkie in commune Trzebiel, Poland) – November 28, 1887, Leipzig, Germany) (aged 86)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologist, philosopher, physicist and writer.
Specification: Founder of psychophysics, one of the founders of modern experimental psychology
Gender: Male
Gustav Fechner Quotes:
1. Those only have had great influence in the world who have recognized the spiritual tendency of the time in which they lived and have directed their free action and thought into that tendency.
2. Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.
3. A Goethe, a Schiller, a Napoleon, a Luther, still live among us, thinking and acting in us, as awakened creative individuals…
4. The mind of man is alike indistinguishably his own possession and that of the higher intelligences, and what proceeds from it belongs equally to both always, but in different ways.
5. Have the best constantly in mind, and be careful only that the memory that you yourself are to leave behind shall be a blessing to you in the future.
Jesus Christ Spiritual Quotes
JESUS CHRIST
Jesus of Nazareth, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Jesus is the Messiah, Christo (Greek), Christ (English)
(c. 6-4 BC, Bethlehem Nazareth, Judea – 7 April 30 AD, Jerusalem, Calvary or Golgotha Judea, Roman Empire) (crucifixion).
Nationality: Ancient Rome
Category: Votaries of Spirit
Occupation: Spiritual teacher
Specification: Founder of Christianity, The Son of God and God incarnate in the Christian religion
Gender: Male
Holiday: Birthday Is Holiday 25 December ( 7 January), Christmas
Jesus Christ Quotes:
1. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
2. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
3. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
4. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
5. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
6. Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive.
7. Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
8. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
9. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
10. But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
11. If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
12. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
13. Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
14. With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
15. Judge not, that ye be not judged.
16. Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
17. Arise, and be not afraid.
18. Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Frank Barron – Psychology of Creativity
FRANK BARRON
Frank Xavier Barron
(June 17, 1922, Lansford, Pennsylvania – October 6, 2002, Santa Cruz, California) (Aged 80)
Nationality: United States
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologist, Professor, Non-Fiction Writer, Poet
Specification: A pioneer in the psychology of creativity and in the study of human personality, professor of Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Psychology of Creativity
Gender: Male
Family: Barron married Nancy Jean Camp in 1961, and they had three children: Francis Charles Xavier, Brigid Jessica Sarah, and Anthea Rose Maeve.
Education: In 1937 he attended La Salle University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1942. He received his Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1948, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
Influences: Dante, Augustine, Yeats, Galton,Pavlov, Fechner, W. James, Freud, Jung, Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Binet and Piaget.
Career: Barron served the U.S. Army (1943 – 1946) in Europe as a medical sergeant. He taught as a visiting professor at Harvard, Bryn Mawr College, University of Hawaii, Wesleyan and from 1949 to 1968 worked as a founding member of the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at UC Berkeley. From 1969 until his retirement in 1992 he taught courses in personality and human creativityat the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Personality: Barron had a gentle heart, great sense of humor and impressed with his erudition , subtlety of mind and love of language. He was fond of poetry and wrote a book of poems “Ghosts”.
Alexander the Great in Art
ALEXANDER THE GREATAlexander III of Macedon
Alexandros Philippou Makedonon
(20/21 July 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia — June 10/13, 323 BC, Babylon) (aged 33)
Nationality: Ancient Greece, Macedonia
Category: Figures
Occupation: Military Leader, ruler, world conqueror
Specification: King of Macedonia, Emperor who created one of the largest empires in ancient history, one of the most successful military leaders in history
Gender: Male
Reign: 336–323 BC
Titles: Hegemon of the Hellenic League, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt and King of Asia
Alexander the Great quotes: 1. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. 2. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
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