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Creativity Quotes
"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
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"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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"We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes."
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"I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself."
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"We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea."
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"Ideas any one can mould as he wishes."
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"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
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"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."
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"Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession."
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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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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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"Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth."
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"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
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"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
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"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
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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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"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
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"The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account."
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"The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting."
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"The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him."
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"There's no good idea that can't be improved on."
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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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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
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"I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there."
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"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
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"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
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"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
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"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
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"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."
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"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."
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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
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"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."
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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all."
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"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
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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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