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• When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Color, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.84, Convergent Books

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Play

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Godly, Cheerful

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

  Florence King

  Ideas, Innovation, Guilt

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

  Edward de Bono

  Teamwork, Strong, Thinking

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• Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, Tuesday, Creative

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

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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Meditation, Mind, Furniture

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• Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mean, Doorways, Groaning

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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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, Men

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• People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Creative, Being Different

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Effectiveness

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• Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

  Edward de Bono

  Giving, Achievement, Possibility

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Imagination

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.

  James Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Moving, Mean

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Ice Cream, Innovation

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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Creative, Competition

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• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Study, Distraction, Exciting

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• The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Creative, Consistency

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• When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

  Ernest Holmes

  Thinking, Ideas, New Ideas

  Ernest Holmes, Raymond Charles Barker (2016). “365 Days of Richer Living: Daily Inspirations”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

  Rollo May

  Definitions, Born

  "The Courage to Create".

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• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

  Ken Robinson

  Ideas, Creative, Possibility

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

  Ken Robinson

  Events, Process

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creative, Energy, Enthusiasm

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.181, Penguin

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