Creative Genius Quotes

• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

  Bertrand Russell

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, School, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dream, Creative, Genius

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  William James

  Philosophical, Essence, Genius

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  Madame de Stael

  Creativity, Creative, Bears

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Intelligence

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• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Trust

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.9, Bantam

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• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Nature, Self Esteem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.37, New World Library

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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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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• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

  Arthur Helps

  Drama, Passion, People

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.94

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• For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

  Kanye West

  Lying, Genius

  Song: Jimmy Kimmel Interview Pt. 1, 2013

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• Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Long, Creative

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Creativity, Creative

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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