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• If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?

  Roger von Oech

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Falling In Love

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• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Teaching, Writing, Young Writers

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• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Responsibility, Eden

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.409, A&C Black

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• Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Screens

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• Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

  Jim Rohn

  Successful, People, Imagination

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Skills

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Sleep, Whales

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Writing, Men

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• God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the ways of creativity - and that has disappeared. Instead of creativity we value productivity: we talk about how to produce more. Production can give you things but cannot give you values. Production can make you rich outwardly but it will impoverish you inwardly. Production is not creation. Production is very mediocre; any stupid person can do it, one simply needs to learn the knack of it.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Giving, Needs

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• Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

  Rajneesh

  Creating, Creating Something, Presence Of God

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• We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intuition, Needs, World

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• God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

  Arthur Peacocke

  God, Creating, World

  Arthur Peacocke (2013). “Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring”, p.86, Oneworld Publications

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• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

  Karen Horney

  Men, Creative, Feelings

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

  Abdul Kalam

  Leadership, Young Generation, Role Models

  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (0101). “Enlightened Minds”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Expression, Giving, Creative

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.8, Penguin

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• We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

  Julia Cameron

  Creative, Creation, Force

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.15, Penguin

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• The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

  Teresa Amabile

  Learning, People, Creative

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• In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Real, Believe

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• Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

  Ed McCabe

  Competition, Way, Lasts

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• Music will save the world.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, World, Save The World

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• The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

  Herbie Hancock

  Art, People, Serious

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• Music has always been transnational.

  Yo-Yo Ma

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• The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

  Wayne Shorter

  Art, Doors, Imagination

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• I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Comedian

  "Jon Stewart, in his own words" By Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2015.

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• When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, Littles, Endorphins

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