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• Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

  John Updike

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

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• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  Laozi

  Creativity, Heaven, Sublimity

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• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Thinking, Enemy

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Being Alone, Writing

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

  George Washington Carver

  Courage, Creativity, Mind

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”

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• When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Addiction, Healthy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Witty, Educational

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Leap Of Faith, Pages

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• If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

  Aristotle

  Causes, Prove, Effects

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.137, Aeterna Press

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• Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

  Missy Elliot

  Hip Hop, Hips, Used

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• Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

  Jerry Stiller

  Creativity, Growing, Fields

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Coach is the antidote to the Victim's Rescuer in the DDT...Mainly, a Coach supports, assists, and facilitates the Creator in manifesting a desired outcome. A Coach holds others to be whole, resourceful, and creative...They help you dig deep inside yourself to gain clarity about what you want to create in your life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Ddt, Support, Want

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

  Freda Adler

  Change, Heart, Men

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Suffering, Correlation, Knows

  "The Enduring American Press". Book edited by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Success, Children, Growing Up

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  Kary Mullis

  Creativity, Desire, Scientific Method

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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