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Creativity Quotes
"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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"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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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief."
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"It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them."
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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
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"I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt."
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"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead."
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"The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess."
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"Love, Imagination and Intuition are the most powerful forces on the planet earth."
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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse."
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"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine."
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"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique."
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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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"Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas."
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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
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"When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!"
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"Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity."
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"What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?"
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"Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
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"Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness."
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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool, it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
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"Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done."
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"I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity."
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"I make art when I can't gather the words to say."
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"Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself."
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"When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize."
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
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"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
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"If you would create something,you must be something."
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"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material."
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"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
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