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Creativity Quotes
"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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"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
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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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"If you're alive, you're creative."
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"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
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"You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else."
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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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"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."
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"Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer."
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"No great thing is created suddenly."
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"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
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"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better."
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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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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
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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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"Art is the refreshing source of existence."
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"My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place."
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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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"Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
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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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"A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses, a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings."
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"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
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"Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box."
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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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"Art is the objectification of feeling."
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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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"If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you."
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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
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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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"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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"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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"Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail."
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"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."
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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."
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"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas."
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