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Creativity Quotes
"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
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"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
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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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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
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"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
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"When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language."
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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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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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"Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box."
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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
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"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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"I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity."
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"We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went."
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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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"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
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"Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important."
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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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"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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"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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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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"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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"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
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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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"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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"One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one."
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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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"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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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free."
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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."
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"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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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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"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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"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
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"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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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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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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