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• Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

  Neil Gaiman

  Graduation, Interesting, World

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.418, Hachette UK

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

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

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• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Confidence, Fear, Creativity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

  Alec Soth

  Inspirational, Creativity, Careers

  "Simply Paying Attention With Alec Soth". Interview with Alexander Strecker, www.lensculture.com.

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• I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

  Terence Conran

  Creative, Mets, Satisfied

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• A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Creative, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

  Patricia Johanson

  Healing, Differences, Creative

  Caffyn Kelley, Patricia Johanson (2006). “Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects”, Salt Spring Island, B.C. : Islands Institute

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• Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Creative, Important

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• The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

  Hal Riney

  Ideas, Creative, Tomorrow

  "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

  Ester Dean

  People, Creative, Reason

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• I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.

  Shinobu Yaguchi

  Japan, People, Creative

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A creative person has to #‎ create .

  Katherine Dunham

  Creative, Persons

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• Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

  Diane Ackerman

  Doors, Creative, Routine

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• To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

  Ira Sachs

  Pain, Artist, Rejection

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A Seed for Contemplation:
  Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

  Harold Klemp

  Gratitude, Grateful, Creativity

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

  Caitlin Thomas

  People, Creative, Doe

  Caitlin Thomas, George Tremlett (1986). “Caitlin: a warring absence”, Harvill Secker

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• The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Men, Creative

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Character, Past

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• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  Gary Zukav

  Wise, Generosity, Choices

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

  Ajay Naidu

  Creative, Important, Actors

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• What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

  Wanda Sykes

  Creative, Comedy, Persons

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