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Creativity Quotes
"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 one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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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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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
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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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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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"The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products."
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"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
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"Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life."
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"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."
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"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
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"A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
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"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
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"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
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"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."
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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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"I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence."
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"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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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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"Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write."
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"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
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"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
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"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself."
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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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"In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress."
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"A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'."
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"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
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"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
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"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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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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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important."
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
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"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."
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"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
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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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"The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world."
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"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."
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