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Creativity Quotes
"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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"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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"You have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
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"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."
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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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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 think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
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"Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it."
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"My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
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"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."
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"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
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"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
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"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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"It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily."
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas."
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"As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing."
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"The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here."
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"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."
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"Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."
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"I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it? I quit, I'm done? Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment of what's out there."
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"Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."
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"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
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"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."
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"An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!"
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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
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"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."
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"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
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"You owe it to yourself to constantly experience the priceless feeling that comes with turning a great idea into reality."
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"The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule."
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"I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there."
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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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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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