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Creativity Quotes
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
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"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
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"There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not."
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"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."
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"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."
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"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
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"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being."
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"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
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"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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"The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology."
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"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
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"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."
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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around."
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"No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting."
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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."
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"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."
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"I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right."
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"You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation."
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
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"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
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"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."
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"I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform."
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"I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do."
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"Imagination rules the world."
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"If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle!But a vemon was a made creature, as if one took the front half of the Lab and jammed it onto the back half of thr poodle. In other words, wrong."
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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
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"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
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"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
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"I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read."
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"Don't just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!"
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"We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and 'unfold creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development."
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"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."
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"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
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"I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd."
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"Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions."
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"If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!"
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"Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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"All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics."
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"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
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"She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!"
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"For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first."
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"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
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"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state."
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"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
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