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Creativity Quotes
"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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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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"Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box."
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"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
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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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"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."
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"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."
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"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
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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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"Imagination releases power to achieve goals."
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"What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?"
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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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"Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity."
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"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
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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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"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions."
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"I make art when I can't gather the words to say."
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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'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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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
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"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
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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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"Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth."
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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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"And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others."
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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 felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple."
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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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"Art is the refreshing source of existence."
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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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"We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts."
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"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
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"To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing."
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"There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself."
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"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."
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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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"I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency."
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"My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place."
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