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Creativity Quotes
"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
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"What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity."
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"In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that."
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do."
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"But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years."
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"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."
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"As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances."
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"Always let your heart sing, no musical talent needed."
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"Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good."
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"Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty."
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"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
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"Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts..."
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"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
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"It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite."
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"She adored fairy tales,yet derived great rewardrewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul.Her fairytales weren't made of desperate girlsbeing rescued by handsomespoiled princes.Her stories were made of badass womenteasing monstersand running wild with dragons."
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"It's real great to be back in my studio to create amazing music , after I took a break it was awesome to go back once again and create this awesome soundtrack ,,,,,how can I forget you .... I love all chords I've created and nothing in this world compares the beauty and the greatness of being in my studio and creating this adorable music ...endless greatness."
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"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on."
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"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
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"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers."
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"Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted."
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
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"Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong."
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"With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said."
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"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."
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"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."
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"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
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"When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough."
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"Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.Seth Godin"
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"The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind."
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"Don't just do the obvious and predictable stuff, be remarkable!"
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"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose."
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"I'm building a castle of soundtracks. So that one day I'll tell the ones I care for, I fought for my rights to dream and making them come true."
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"Words give sound to the beauty of Life."
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"We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not."
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"If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all."
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"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
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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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