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• A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

  Kurt Hanks

  Creativity, Play, Creative

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• Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

  Fred Picker

  Photography, Creative, Should

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• I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

  Jemaine Clement

  New York, Cities, Creative

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Opportunity, Creative, Constraints

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creativity, Creative, Asking

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• After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their minds are rested, alert, and not yet polluted by other people's words.

  Twyla Tharp

  Morning, Jobs, Phones

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

  John Cleese

  Play, People, Creative

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• While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Creative, May

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• It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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• ... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Uplifting, Mean, Achievement

  Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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• Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

  Sark

  Creativity, Space, Creative

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• I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, School, Night

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creativity, Creative, World

  "Isaac Asimov Asks, 'How Do People Get New Ideas?'". Essay by Isaac Asimov on creativity, www.technologyreview.com. 1959.

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• Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

  Conor McGregor

  Fun, Mma, Creative

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• With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

  Lake Bell

  Decision, Creative, Trying

  "Lake Bell enjoys juggling titles of actress, director". Interview with The Associated Press, www.azcentral.com. June 9, 2015.

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• Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job

  David Byrne

  Jobs, Sex, Growing Up

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• I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Successful, Thinking, Keys

  Q&A, www.pbs.org. January 16, 2007.

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• I care about being creative and productive.

  Merrill Markoe

  Creative, Care, Productive

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Goal, Creative

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Creative, Suffering

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.104, Heinemann

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• Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Artist, Creative, Isolation

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• The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.

  Freeman Patterson

  Spiritual, Air, Apples

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• People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

  Teresa Amabile

  Gun, People, Focus

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• If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Journey, Creative

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