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• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  William Plomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

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• The essence of being human is being creative.

  Joel Garreau

  Essence, Creative, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.263, Broadway Books

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• The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Design, Creative, Vision

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• To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.102, Penguin

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• All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Creativity, Skills, Creative

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• What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Creative, Ships

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• When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

  Freddy Adu

  Soccer, Moving, Play

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• Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Creative, Survival

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• You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

  George Lois

  Creative, Cautious, Be Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

  Assata Shakur

  Spiritual, Struggle, Creativity

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• Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Exercise, Skills

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• Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

  Heather Sellers

  Writing, Mean, Creative

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• If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

  Dale Dauten

  Motivational, Careers, Track

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• We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Creation

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.15, Penguin

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• I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.

  Renee O'Connor

  Mean, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  Ed Koch

  Art, History, Killing

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• Being creative is not so much the desire  to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

  Anni Albers

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

  Kenzo Tange

  Creative, Tradition, Creation

  Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”

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• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  Pablo Casals

  Creativity, Hands, People

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• Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Engineering

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Discovery, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Creative, Force

  Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (1999).

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• The fact that a consistendy highly creative person is generally irresponsible in the sense that we have used this term is in part predictable from what is known about the freewheeling fantasies of very young children.

  Theodore Levitt

  Creative, Persons, Irresponsible

  "Marketing for business growth".

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• We are all Michaelangelos.

  Tom Peters

  Creative

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