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Creativity Quotes
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
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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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"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
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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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"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
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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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"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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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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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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"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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"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
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"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."
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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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"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
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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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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
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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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"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
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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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"Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!"
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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 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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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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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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"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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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
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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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"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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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
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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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"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
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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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"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
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"The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion."
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"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
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"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
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"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."
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"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
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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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"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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