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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Creative, Genius

  Song: Jimmy Kimmel Interview Pt. 1, 2013

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• The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

  Augusten Burroughs

  Creative, Trying, Nebula

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• Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Learning, School, Knowledge

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Creative, Genius, Coronation

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• Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Creative

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

  Denis Diderot

  Creativity, Mean, Reflection

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

  Eric Ries

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Successful

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• Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

  Umberto Eco

  Wise, Creativity, Creative

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• Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Race, Color

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.847, Best Books on

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Average, Symbolism

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• When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Keys, Creative

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Bible, God, Faith

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone. They arise from a deep inspiration on the universal level, and are then expressed and brought into form through the individual personality.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspiration, Creativity, Personality

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.129, Mango Media Inc.

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• Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sex, Creative, Energy

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• What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To Be More Creative, that's for sure... If startling insights could be systematically arrived at, they wouldn't be startling. The best you can do is to create a conducive environment: put in the hours; take time to daydream; avoid mind-corroding substances.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Book, Reading, Creative

  "This column will change your life: creative thinking" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2013.

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• How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Art, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

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• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, Dark, Science

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

  Joe Zee

  Creative, Soul, Genius

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• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Symbolism, Creative

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• ...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Thinking, Creative, Genius

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• I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.

  Dan Simmons

  Essence, Civilization, Ideas

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