Creative Quotes - Page 29

• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Understanding

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• There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.

  Anthony Braxton

  Real, Dedication, Offering

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• Be creative. Use your voice, your community.

  Ray Toro

  Voice, Community, Use

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• If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Moving, Mean

  "The Henry Rollins Show", April 13, 2007.

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• If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

  Christopher Peterson

  Stupid, Venture, Boxes

  Christopher Peterson (2012). “Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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• I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

  Robert Sternberg

  Projects, Wells, Materials

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• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Humanity

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

  Isocrates

  Art, Men, Analogies

  Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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• I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

  Todd English

  Thinking, Interesting Situations, People

  "Celebrity Chef Restaurants: The Rise Of The Emperor-Chefs" by Joe Satran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Giving, Purpose

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• We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.

  Sumner Redstone

  Suicide, Thinking, Cost

  "Overcoming 'Creative Suicide': What's Next for Tom Cruise?" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. August 23, 2006.

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• She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Song, Class, Musician

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• The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Life, Ideas, Goal

  Robert Briffault (1969). “Reasons for anger”, Books for Libraries

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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

  Miguel

  Song, Ideas, Perspective

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• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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• What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

  JC Chasez

  Artist, Pushing, Feels

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• What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of us in our daily lives—what kind of [buildings] we live in, what kind of clothes we wear, what we see with our eyes. We are often blind to the beautiful things around us. What I'm mostly concerned about is how often we're blind to our own talent. I think that within each human being there is a creative spirit, and some of us have been fortunate enough to have good teachers and parents who've brought this out and encouraged it, but others haven't.

  Joan Mondale

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Levels, May, Tone

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 159, 1951.

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• When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

  Curtis Jackson

  Self, Should Have, Goal

  "The 50th Law". Book by 50 Cent and Robert Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Weather, Storm, Would Be

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.90, Routledge

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• Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Creativity, Challenges

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

  Biz Stone

  Challenges, Wakes You, Provocative

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

  Robert G. Allen

  Goal, Orbit, Pilots

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

  Stewart Lee

  Confusing, Thrill, Way

  Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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