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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?

52 answers answered between 1976 and 2026 one of 4 from The Creative Independent

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A repeated Creative Independent tension, asked as inspiration, muse, discipline, ritual, or the requirement to show up.

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 9 Arts and letters 34 Politics and public life 1 Business and finance 3 Technology 2 Sport 3
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 4 In their forties 4 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 5 Seventy and beyond 10
Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Monday to Friday, very, very industriously from ten in the morning ’til about six in the evening, I just sat and wrote, and revised and revised, and wrote.
Recorded Interview, Cape Town, South Africa, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗

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