Creativity Quotes - Page 29

• If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

  Nikki Sixx

  Two, Giving, Sound

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• If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Focus, Looks

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• A good smell puts me in a great mood and even inspires my creativity.

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Smell, Inspire, Mood

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

  Adam Duritz

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Creating, Twenties

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Lying, Character

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Deities, Genius, Done

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little crazy; I want to be making things all the time. And if I publish something every week, I don't have to put every idea I have into one piece. It's more like, here's one idea: execute it, see it through, think about it, do it the best you can. And then there are going to be ten more ideas that come while you're making that, because creativity works that way.

  Paul Madonna

  Couple, Crazy, Thinking

  Interview with Julie Greicius, therumpus.net. December 7, 2009.

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• However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Expression, Generosity, Different

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

  John Hodgman

  Feelings, Dimensions

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

  Erica Jong

  Demand, Talent, Enough

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Flower, Praise, Delicate

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

  Patrick Califia

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Gentle

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

  Twyla Tharp

  May, Knows

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• To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

  Erin Wasson

  Beautiful, Clothes, Casting

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• Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Humour, Bases

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Mind, Trying

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• Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.

  James C. Collins

  Discipline, Amplify, Should

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• I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.

  Cam Newton

  Fashion, Believe, Dressing Up

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Blue, Innovation, Way

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• Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

  Rollo May

  Mean, Self, Levels

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Piercings, Scientist, Mundane

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• The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Agency, Lexicon

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• It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

  James Dyson

  Ideas, Confusion, Innovation

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