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• Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

  Jim Speros

  People, Creative, Growth

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• Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Creative, Clay

  David Byrne (2010). “Bicycle Diaries”, p.192, Faber & Faber

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• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

  Glenn Gould

  Cutting, Artist, Creative

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• The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life

  Viktor Schauberger

  Life, Nature, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.22, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

  Michael Bassey

  Creativity, Creative, Creator

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• Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Truth, Reality, Roots

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• I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Creative, Pace

  Source: collider.com

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• It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mistake, Lying, Artist

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• In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Spiritual, Artist, Creative

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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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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• No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Creativity, Science

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• The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

  Mary Oliver

  Uprising, People, Creative

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Program

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

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• I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Thinking, Creative

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Thinking, Productive Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Imagination, Creative

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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  Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

  Hermann Hesse

  Passion, Home, Creative

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Selfish, Creativity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

  Marian Keyes

  Believe, Sleep, Writing

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• Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Creative, Conditioning

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• In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

  Albert Einstein

  Writing, Creativity, Creative

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• It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

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• I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Believe, Taken, Creativity

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