It’s season 3 of the 3.2.1 Quote Me! game created by Rory at A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip.  Today’s topic is creativity, and thank you  to Beckie at Beckie’s Mental Mess for tagging me.

The rules (which I’m not going to follow entirely):

Rules: 3.2.1 Quote Me!

Thank the Selector

Post 2 quotes for the dedicated Topic of the Day.

Tag 3 bloggers to take part in ‘3.2.1 Quote Me!’

Note: Although this is the topic for today there is no specific deadline to it, meaning you can answer as and when.

Please Note l will be reblogging your responses unless you wish for me to NOT do so.

This one clearly comes from a fellow introvert:

“Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.” – Naomi Judd

The second one seems to capture the creative process particularly well:

“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.” – Jonah Lehrer

Beckie of Beckie’s Mental Mess tagged for for A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip’s 3.2.1 Quote me game, on the topic of greetings.

“Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.” – Arthur Guiterman

Oh, and they don’t want to know about your mental illness either…  Perhaps we just need to permanently remove the question mark from “how are you?”

“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.” – P.J. O’Rourke

I have a feeling this was what he may have had in mind:

Image credit: The Daily Mail

Rory at A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip tagged me for his game 3.2.1 Quote me.  The topic this time around is balance.  Both of these quotes seem quite relevant to my life.

“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.” – Stephenie Meyer

“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” – Betsy Jacobson

Thanks to Bipolar Barb and Beckie’s Mental Mess who’ve tagged me for A Guy Called Bloke‘s 3.2.1 Quote Me game for the topic of change.  You can find the rules (which I haven’t really followed) on their posts.

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai

Thanks to Rory at A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip for tagging me for his 3.2.1 Quote Me game.  If you want to join in the fun, you can’t get this details on his post.  Today’s topic is boredom, and I decided to go with some quotes from BrainyQuote that left me thinking “huh?”

“Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There’s a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?” – J. G. Ballard

That’s when you get a snuggly llama (preferably one that doesn’t spit on you).

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.” – Karl Kraus

If boredom is sexually transmitted then I guess I’m safe!

Thanks to Rory from A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip for tagging me for his 3.2.1 Quote Me game.  Today’s topic is experience.  If you want to join in, you can find the details on his post.

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.” – Randy Pausch

And one more for good measure:

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” – Rita Mae Brown