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• Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

  John Irving

  Writing, Maps, Plot

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• The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

  Gail Caldwell

  Honesty, Lying, Writing

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• All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Creativity, Skills, Sitting

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Greek, Mind

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• Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Leadership, Honesty, Creativity

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• I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Leadership, Determination, Chocolate

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• He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

  Umberto Eco

  Reality, Imagination, Planning

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.594, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.

  Brian Boyle

  Reality, Cities, People

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• The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Reality, Littles

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• Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Departed, Materialism

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9091, Delphi Classics

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• I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.

  Michael Eisner

  Dream, Heart, Creativity

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• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Math, Reality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Real, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Fall, Romance

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• Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.

  Jerry Holkins

  War, Design, Doe

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• Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

  Michael Shannon

  Design, Fundamentals, World

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• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

  Bernard Arnault

  Design, Management, Inspired

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Curiosity

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• What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Ships, Be Creative

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• Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Ideas, People

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• When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

  Freddy Adu

  Soccer, Moving, Play

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• Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, Brain

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• Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Survival, Littles

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• Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

  Bernard Arnault

  Leadership, Jobs, Freedom

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