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Creativity Quotes
"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
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"Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit."
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"I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling."
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"Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination."
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"When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind."
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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
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"Writing is like breathing for my soul."
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"A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under."
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"The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words."
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"A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities."
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"Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings."
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"I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing."
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"Nothing novel or interesting happens unless it is on the border between order and chaos."
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"I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered."
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"Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant."
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"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
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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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"To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find."
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"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
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"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."
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"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."
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"No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist."
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"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
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"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come."
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"That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all."
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"Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany."
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"Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create."
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"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
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"In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster."
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"Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around."
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“About clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
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"We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene."
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"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good."
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
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"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."
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"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
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"Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist."
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"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
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"Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating."
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"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."
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"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."
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"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
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"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
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