Where does creativity hide?

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride with a surprise ending.

Half Glass Full

"Losers see thunderstorms, winners see rainbows; losers see icy streets, winners put on their ice skates!" -- Denis Waitley

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." -- Booker T. Washington

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -- Charles A. Beard

"Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes." -- Jim Rohn

"Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow." -- Helen Keller

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in very difficulty." -- Winston Churchill

"Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives. That is why it is important to be a serious student of both." -- Jim Rohn

"The darkest nights bring the brightest days." -- Rick Beneteau

"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon." -- Alan Loy Mcginnis

"Like taking a morning shower, make the planting of positive thoughts a daily practice." -- Neil Eskelin

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is possible to be a sage in some things and a child in others, to be at once ferocious and retarded, shrewd and foolish, serene and irritable." -- Walter Lippmann

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed – for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself." -- Georges Clemenceau

"To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you approach life with a sense of possibility and the expectation of positive results, you´re more likely to have a life in which possibilities are realized and results are positive." -- Lisa Funderburg

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway to the human spirit." -- Helen Keller

A Conditional Life

"What's stopping me from doing exactly what I want to do right now?' It's the classic case of the chicken and the egg, only logic: Do you wait for the right conditions to manifest before moving forward, or do you create those conditions by moving forward, with trust and without fear?"

Friendship

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away." Arabian Proverb