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- 1. Bipolar Creatives: From Plato to Eminem Submitted by Ingrid Salim EDUC 507 July 2015
- 2. Annotation As a bipolar person, I chose to focus on creatives who either exhibited huge mood swings throughout their lives but lived before we diagnosed mood disorders, or were actively diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The only one in question would be the most modern example, Eminem, whose mother has claimed he is bipolar (incredible given her drug abuse) but whose friends and others have indicated intense mood swings, likely indicating some kind of bipolar disorder.
- 3. Plato 424– 347 BCE Philosopher, Historian “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
- 4. Sir Isaac Newton 1642 –1726 Alchemist, Theologian, Physicist “What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
- 5. Emmanual Kant 1724 –1804 Theologian, Philosopher “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
- 6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 –1791, Composer Mozart Flute Concerto No 1 in G - Jean-Pierre Rampal Orchestra
- 7. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886 Poet "Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency
- 8. Friedrich Nietzche1844 –1900 Philosopher “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
- 9. Joseph Conrad 1857 –1924 Writer “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
- 10. Gustav Mahler 1860 –1911 Composer Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.1 in D major "Titan“ "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.“
- 11. Georgia O’keefe 1887 –1986 Artist “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”
- 12. Alvin Ailey 1931 – 1989 “The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.”
- 13. Sylvia Plath 1932 –1963 Writer, Artist “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
- 14. Francis Ford Coppola 1939- Film Director “I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.” Heart of Darkness Trailer
- 15. Robin Williams 1951 – 2014, Comedian, Actor “If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” Robin Williams Stand up Comedy Clip, Scotland Robin Williams' Siri Impression! Remembering Robin Williams
- 16. Eminem 1972- Poet, Rap Artist Eminem - Rap God Eminem - Mockingbird
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