Creative Quotes - Page 36

• We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Intelligent, Supreme

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• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Feelings, Ongoing

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• Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Fun, Way, Kind

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• The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

  Richard Hamming

  Inspirational, Thinking, Dangerous

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• Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Philosophical, Different, Substance

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• The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

  Ernest Becker

  Keys, World, Common

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.176, Souvenir Press

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• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Way, Reins

  "Lorne Michaels: the inscrutable kingmaker of comedy" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Creative Nonfiction, Ideas, Interesting

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• The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Real, Ideas, Creative Nonfiction

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• The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

  William Bernbach

  Success, Moving, Men

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• Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

  Norman Foster

  Practice, Directors, Individual

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• Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Inspiring, Albums, Labels

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• My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

  Luc Ferrari

  Sister, Artist, Going Out

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• Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nihilism, Genius, True Genius

  "The Social Contract & Discourses".

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• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Andre Norton

  Mistake, Thinking, Race

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• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

  Ann Beattie

  New York, Distance, Cities

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• Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Important, Tiny, Fractions

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  Jerry Brown

  Technology, Opportunity, Destiny

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• We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

  Chad Smith

  Song, Writing, Together

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• And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

  Trish Stratus

  Team, Character, Personality

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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, Program, Century

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

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• We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isn't creative on its own because it is programmed to behave in a predictable way. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Learning, Creativity, Way

  The Corporate Board, Vol. 13, p. 30, 1992.

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• The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Learning, Creativity, Simple

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• To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

  Ellen Langer

  Creativity, Natural, States

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