Creativity Quotes - Page 34

• In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Rocks, America

  "Baz Luhrmann examines early hip-hop in Netflix series". Interview with John Carucci, apnews.com. July 29, 2016.

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• Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Innovation, Looks

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Directors, Needs

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.48, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Silly, Airplane

  "Time : A Traveler's Guide". Book by Clifford A. Pickover, p. 249, 1998.

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• The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.

  Susan Lyne

  Smart, Block

  "10 Smart Quotes From 'Innovation Uncensored' Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

  Mary Henle

  Passion, Thinking, Discovery

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• If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

  Mary Henle

  Goal, Creative, Individuality

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• The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

  Mary Henle

  Creative, Thinker, Detached

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• The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

  Doris Betts

  Opposites, Creative, Together

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• I firmly believe in the value of books: it's the way to pass on our work, and it allows us to explore new ways to express our creativity. In this specific case, Mariano Vivanco shot some images of David for this project's purpose.

  Domenico Dolce

  Believe, Book, Purpose

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• There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Simple, Engineering, Roots

  "Masterminds of Programming Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages". Book by Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi, March 2009.

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• Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

  Gabe Newell

  Girl, People, Language

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• Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Exercise, Unending, Uncertainty

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• Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Forget, Suspended

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• I always tell people that my creativity lies in the belly of the beast and that's exactly what it is. A lot of people think that 'dark' is a bad concept, but I think it's a beautiful thing because that's mostly where your best work comes from. You can say it's dark, but you splash so much colour on it from what's inside you. Everybody always puts negative connotations on the idea of darkness.

  Jlin

  Beautiful, Lying, Dark

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

  Judd Apatow

  Stories, Want, Tvs

  Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2016.

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• The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.

  Carolina Herrera

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

  Truman Capote

  People, Genius, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

  Noam Chomsky

  Valleys, Doe, Initiative

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

  Kreesha Turner

  Jamaica, Soul, Everyday

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.

  Lewis Schiff

  Jobs, Zuckerberg, Apples

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Mistake, Flower, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

  Donnis

  Soul, Spotlight, Want

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.

  Manmohan Singh

  Mean, Ignorance, Thinking

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• Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

  Asa Butterfield

  Fun, Different, Originals

  Source: www.justjared.com

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