Be Creative Quotes - Page 9

• Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Philosophy, Flower, Ideas

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.168, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Confused, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

  Eric Cantona

  Creativity, Player, Creative

  2003 In The Guardian, 26 Sep.

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• We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

  Doug Dawson

  Ideas, Creative, Pool

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• I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

  Lyle Lovett

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.

  Lisa Mangum

  Art, Believe, Creative

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Fun, Ocean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Giving, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

  Julie Delpy

  Paris, Creative, Sitting

  "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.

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• My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Fun, Hard Work

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• Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Ocean, Unique

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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  When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

  Bill Gates

  Night, Thinking, Creative

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

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• Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

  Paul Ford

  Holiday, Years, Games

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• You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Creative, Stills

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• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Sisterhood

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

  Vince Gill

  Creative, Get Better, Done

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

  Gary Kemp

  Creative, Way, Vulnerable

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Always push to be creative.

  Mod Sun

  Creative

  Source: dailyunsigned.com

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• Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

  Ray Dalio

  People, Creative, Different

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have the canvas in front of you and then you do stuff. I'm not saying it's easy to paint, but it's a solitary thing. Whereas movies combine so many different things from pre-production to production, sound design, production designing, leading, organizing, while still being creative.

  Baran Odar

  Art, Creative, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Successful, Creative, Essentials

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Growing Up, Boston

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• Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Car, Creative

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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