Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.
In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.
Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.
