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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, True Joy

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Originality, Plagiarism

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  R. D. Laing

  Inspirational, People, Creative

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• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Ideas

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Perfection, Creative, Judgement

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• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Life, Carpe Diem

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Ignorance, Math

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Lonely, Art, Struggle

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• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

  Ken Robinson

  Humans, Human Intelligence, Greatest Gifts

  FaceBook post by SirKenRobinson from Jul 19, 2012

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Ideas

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creative, Piercings, Mundane

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• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

  Edward de Bono

  Hope, Fun, Ideas

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Differences, Problem Solving

  Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Creative, May

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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.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Smart, Responsibility, Discipline

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• Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

  Brian Aldiss

  Success, Ideas, Innovation

  Brian Aldiss (2013). “The Brightfount Diaries”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Ideas

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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