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Creativity Quotes
"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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"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
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"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."
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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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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him."
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
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"The Heart & Mind when in unison is the most powerful creative state for bringing your desires alive within your reality."
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"My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place."
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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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"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."
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"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."
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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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"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
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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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"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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"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice."
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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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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"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything."
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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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"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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"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter."
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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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"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 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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"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."
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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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"You owe it to yourself to constantly experience the priceless feeling that comes with turning a great idea into reality."
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"In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story."
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"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
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"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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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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"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
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"There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas."
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"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
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"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."
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"When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album."
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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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