creativity

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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

- Mille, Agnes De

2.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

- Cecil B. DeMille

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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

- Bennett, Arnold

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Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.

- Wieder, Robert

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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

- Hemingway, Ernest

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

- Land, Edwin H.

7.

Genius is initiative on fire.

- Jackson, George Holbrook

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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

- Saxe, John

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Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

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There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.

- Hugh Macleod

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The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

- Dickens, Charles

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Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

- Bruce Lee

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Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

- Lodge, David

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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

- Alfonso X

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One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy-the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

- Podhoretz, Norman

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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

- Fitzhenry, R. I.

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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

- Daisaku Ikeda

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To create something you must be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von