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• As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.

  Boudleaux Bryant

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Support, Friendly

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• I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

  Jenna Dewan

  Trying, Want, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

  Melissa George

  Brother, Dad, Years

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• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  Nadia Abu El Haj

  Goal, Insightful, Different

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• Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

  Christopher Flavin

  Future, Effort, Healthy

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Madness, Distraction

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand.

  Elaine Dundon

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

  Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.17, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Women, People, Choices

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• Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  Bob Proctor

  Happiness, Understanding, Mind

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 16, 2011

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• Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

  David Ogilvy

  Senior, Men, Ideas

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

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• I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

  William Beck

  Thinking, Design, Doe

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• I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.

  Paul Scriven

  Mean, Icons, Design

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• Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

  Richard Florida

  Work, Creativity, Iron

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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• The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Creativity, Years, World

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• As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Science, Intellectual

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• Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

  James A. Michener

  Creativity, Science, Genius

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

  Adolf Hitler

  Creativity, Science, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Creativity, Science, Men

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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• Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

  Laurie Alberts

  Writing, Two, Scene

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, F+W Media, Inc.

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• By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Fundamentals, Metaphysical

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.21, Penguin

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• If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

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• A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

  James Scott

  Hero, Hard Work, Writing

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