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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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"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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"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 first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
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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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"There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking."
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"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
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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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"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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"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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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
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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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"It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye."
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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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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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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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"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
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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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"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
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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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"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on 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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"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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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
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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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"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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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
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"The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion."
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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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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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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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"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
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