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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Kaleidoscope, Floating

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• Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

  Anita Roddick

  Anarchist

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• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Heritage, Elements, Rehabilitation

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• I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

  Helmut Jahn

  Space, Office, Collaboration

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• It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

  Peter Bart

  Levels, Corporations, Nurture

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Inspirational, Work, Numbers

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• We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

  Johannes Rau

  Mean, Giving, Joy

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Depressing, Principles, Architecture

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• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  War, Men, Creative

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Past, Ideas

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• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jealousy, Betrayal, Ambition

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

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• Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

  Frank Thomas

  Communicate, Wells, Draws

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone
  creative?'

  Abraham Maslow

  Keys, Creative, Creativity And Innovation

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Writing, Joy

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• [We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jealous

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• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Power, Ideas, Innovation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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  I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

  Miles Davis

  Good Morning, Future, Good Day

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Addiction, Fame, Circumstances

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creative

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Order, Chaos, Introducing

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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