Be Creative Quotes - Page 13

• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

  Theodore Levitt

  Business, Creative, Advice

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• It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Courage, Learning, Ideas

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• Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

  Thomas Troward

  Attitude, Creativity, Creative

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• In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

  Jared Leto

  Inspiring, Girl, Mom

  "The 10 most powerful celebrity speeches of 2014" by Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 26, 2014.

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• Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

  Alan Cohen

  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Creativity, Ice Cream

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• Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Creativity, People, Creative

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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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• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Creative, Doe

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, School, Thinking

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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• Be creative. Use your voice, your community.

  Ray Toro

  Voice, Creative, Community

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• A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Design, Creative, Challenges

  "Women in Design: Diane von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

  Lester Bangs

  Dream, Fashion, People

  New Musical Express (December 1977), as quoted in "Various Artists: No Thanks!: The 70s Punk Rebellion" by Eric Carr, pitchfork.com. February 10, 2004.

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• Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

  Christopher Paolini

  Creative, Would Be, Profession

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• I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

  Austin Mahone

  Writing, Creative, Producers

  "Austin Mahone On His New Single And Summer Tour (With Taylor Swift!)". Interview With Casey Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

  Oswald Spengler

  Reading, Creative

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Empathy, Creative

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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