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Creativity Quotes
"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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"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."
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"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
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"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."
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"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms."
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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
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"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."
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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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"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."
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"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
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"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
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"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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"I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him."
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
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"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
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"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
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"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."
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"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"
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"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."
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"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
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"I realized that 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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"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows."
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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
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"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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"I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home."
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"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
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"A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses, a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough."
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"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
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"I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that."
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