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Creativity Quotes
"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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"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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"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
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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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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
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"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."
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"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."
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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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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
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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 hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
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"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."
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"To create is to live twice."
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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'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can."
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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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"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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"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
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"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
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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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"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
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"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."
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"I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually."
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot."
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
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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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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way."
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"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
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"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
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"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
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"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
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"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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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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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
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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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"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
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