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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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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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• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspiring, Teacher, Educational

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Being Alone, Writing

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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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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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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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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• Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Wall, Flower

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  R. D. Laing

  Inspirational, Creativity, People

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Dance, Mean

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Lonely, Art, Struggle

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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