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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Wentworth Miller

  Inspirational, Book, Play

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• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

  Alexander Pope

  Destiny, Creative, Way

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• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Expression, Design

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Fun, Vegetables

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• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Bad Ass, People, Laughing

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• When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Design

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• Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

  Julia Cameron

  Art

  Julia Cameron (2016). “It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond”, p.14, Penguin

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Responsibility, Self, Our World

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jan 25, 2013

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• Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

  Rollo May

  Encounters, Understood

  "The Courage to Create".

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• Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

  Ken Robinson

  Creative, Doe, World

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

  Ken Robinson

  Teaching, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.270, John Wiley & Sons

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• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, Technology, Two

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• My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Creative, Theory

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

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• Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

  Tom Barrett

  Opportunity, Organization, Growth

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• I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

  Scott Bakula

  Hurt, Thinking, Level Playing Field

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• I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

  Josh Lucas

  People, World, Knows

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• I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

  Mark Ryden

  Time, Art, Sleep

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• What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, People, Details

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

  Albert Einstein

  Humor, Play, Desire

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Educational, Inspiration

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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