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• Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

  Joshua Foer

  Creative, Focused

  "Memorization Tips: 5 Easy Ways To Ace That Test" by Jack Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Design, Creative, Challenges

  "Women in Design: Diane von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

  Bill Hicks

  Bullying, Revolutionary Ideas, Creative

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

  Donna Karan

  Husband, Who I Am, Creative

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Inspiring, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

  Lisa Genova

  Creative, Bigs, Practicals

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

  Theodore Levitt

  Business, Creative, Advice

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• It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Courage, Learning, Ideas

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• Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

  Thomas Troward

  Attitude, Creativity, Creative

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• In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

  Jared Leto

  Inspiring, Girl, Mom

  "The 10 most powerful celebrity speeches of 2014" by Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 26, 2014.

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• Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

  Alan Cohen

  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Creativity, Ice Cream

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• Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

  Jim Rohn

  Courage, Creativity, Choices

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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