Be Creative Quotes - Page 16

• They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Creativity, Creative

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• Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Keys, Creative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

  Eric Cantona

  Creativity, Player, Creative

  2003 In The Guardian, 26 Sep.

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• We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

  Doug Dawson

  Ideas, Creative, Pool

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• I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.

  Lyle Lovett

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways.

  Lisa Mangum

  Art, Believe, Creative

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Fun, Ocean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Giving, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

  Julie Delpy

  Paris, Creative, Sitting

  "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.

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• My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Fun, Hard Work

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• Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Ocean, Unique

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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  When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

  Bill Gates

  Night, Thinking, Creative

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

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• Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

  Paul Ford

  Holiday, Years, Games

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• You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Creative, Stills

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Confused, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Philosophy, Flower, Ideas

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.168, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Teacher, Silly, Voice

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• I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

  Rainn Wilson

  Block, Believe, Journey

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Creative, Feel Good

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's an all-inclusive package, when you get to be creative and run a little country while you're on a set and doing it with people that you enjoy working with and you all have a say in it.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Running, Country, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

  Abbie Cornish

  Creative, Actors, Fame

  Source: collider.com

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

  William P. Young

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Thinking, Keys

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