Creativity Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Obvious Things, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• That which builds is better than that which is built.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Built

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Penguin

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• I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

  Julian Lennon

  Balance, Found, Constancy

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

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• God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

  Rajneesh

  Creating, Creator

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• I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

  Joe Wright

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Suffering, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.164, U of Nebraska Press

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Apology, Thinking, People

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Cat, Ideas

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• I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

  Alexander McQueen

  Remember, Forget, Prepared

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• The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Natural, Attainment

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• I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Opportunity, Agency

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• It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

  Julia Cameron

  Creative, Use, Heal

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 27, 2014

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• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Musician, Surrender, Music Business

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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• Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Loss, Punishment

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.45, Penguin

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• You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

  Twyla Tharp

  Crafts, Kidding Yourself, Ifs

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

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• Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it.

  Renee Fleming

  Children, School, Soul

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.25, Penguin

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• For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

  Giorgio Armani

  Imagination, Kingdoms, Realistic

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• I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

  Henri Bergson

  Believe, I Believe, Moments

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• When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Errors, Play, Disappear

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• Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

  Charles Handy

  Confusion, Glimpse, Chaos

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• Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Luxury

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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• Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Intuition, Limits, Dimensions

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