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Creativity Quotes
"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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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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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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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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"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
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"Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness."
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"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
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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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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box."
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"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
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"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings."
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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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"Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice."
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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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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'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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"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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"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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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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"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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"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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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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"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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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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"Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth."
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"If you're alive, you're creative."
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"Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity."
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"My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place."
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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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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
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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 first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
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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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"No matter how different you are, your idea is, your art, your writing, your product, your concept, show it to the world. Just do it. Show who you are to the world. This is what you are here to do."
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"I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later."
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