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• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Kids, Years

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• To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

  Bernard Iddings Bell

  Love You, Love Is, Order

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Creativity, Responsibility, Self

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jan 25, 2013

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• I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Thinking, Roots

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a time, but in mental, creative work he believes one can do his best only for two hours at a time on any one subject, but he can work another two hours on another subject with equal freshness. He therefore sometimes works two hours a day on each of five different creations, and in that way can live five lives at a time.

  Walter Russell

  Believe, Two, Secret

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• Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Secret

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• The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Expression, Giving

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• As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Self, Enough

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.40, Souvenir Press

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• The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Reign, Dangerous, Impulse

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Piercings, Mundane

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Business

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts

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• Vision is the true creative rhythm.

  Robert Delaunay

  Creativity, Vision, Architecture

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

  John Frusciante

  Friendship, Mean, Mars

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• I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

  Kristin Davis

  Crazy, Creativity, People

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heart, Apology

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Long, Innovation

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Inspiring, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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