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Creativity Quotes
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
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"Creativity is just connecting things."
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"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
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"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
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"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."
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"I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea."
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"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."
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"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."
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"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
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"Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude."
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"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
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"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
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"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
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"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
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"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
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"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified."
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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 mankind's heritage."
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"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
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"Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!"
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
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"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
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"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."
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"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
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"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
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"There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
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"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
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"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
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"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
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"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."
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"The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion."
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"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
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"For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible..."
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