Be Creative Quotes - Page 19

• You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Leadership, Dream, Famous Inspirational

  Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

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• The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Long, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Creativity, People

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• That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Creativity, Cat

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• People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, People, Creative

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• I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

  Bob Ross

  Exercise, Thinking, Imagination

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• Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Loneliness, Zest

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• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Integrity, Creativity

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• Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

  Lynsay Sands

  Men, Creative, Lovely

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• I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, Creative, Ambitious

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• Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

  John Cleese

  Music, Mistake, Creative

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

  John Cleese

  Being Alone, Creativity, Space

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• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

  Oswald Spengler

  Reading, Creative

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

  Woodie Flowers

  Love, Creativity, Self

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• Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

  John Cleese

  People, Creative, Easy

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• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

  Twyla Tharp

  Order, Creative, Know How

  "The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life". Book by Twyla Tharp, October 7, 2003.

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• This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

  Ray Davies

  Song, Good Luck, Opportunity

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• The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. 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

  Skills, Creative, Flying

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• Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Drinking, Self, Creative

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• I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

  William Shatner

  Creative

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.155, Macmillan

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