Creativity Quotes - Page 17

• The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

  Phil Cousineau

  Destiny, Creative, Genius

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.34, Conari Press

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• Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, Add, Sides

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• Even a true artist does not always produce art.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Art, Creative, Doe

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

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• First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Creative, Genius

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

  Ross Perot

  Mistake, Moving, People

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• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

  Michael Porter

  Issues, Innovation, Growth

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• The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Women, Receiving, Feminine

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Adventure, Men

  "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

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• And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Enjoyed, Involved

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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Peace, Attitude, Passion

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

  Twyla Tharp

  Nuts, Innovation, No Fear

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

  David Walliams

  Children, Character, Thinking

  "Big Briton" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2007.

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• I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Creative, Innovation, Locked Up

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.31

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• Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Creative, World, Creative Work

  "The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations" by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan Paul Siegel, (p. 424), 1993.

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• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  Abdul Kalam

  Teacher, Children, Keys

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• In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

  Al Gore

  Time, Creative, Important

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• Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Mistake, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A similar quotation occurs inWilde's play LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3 (1892).

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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Real, Writing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Creativity is an act of defiance.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Writing, Defiance

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

  Etty Hillesum

  Believe, Writing, Deeds

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Success, Independent, Firsts

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Business, Bravery

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Artist, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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