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• Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

  Jeanette

  Work, Lying, Creative

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• Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

  Guy Laliberte

  Past, White, Goal

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• The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Creative Collaboration

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• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  William Plomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Life is about trying things to see if they work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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• You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

  Ellen Lupton

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

  Kate Bush

  Ideas, Work Out, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Acceptance

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

  Charles James

  Hands, Design, Creative

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Data, Creative

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

  Bertrand Russell

  Creative, Done, Firsts

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• I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Years, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

  Lin Yutang

  Creative, Intense, Form

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• My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

  Philip K. Dick

  Creative, Blade Runner, Justified

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• Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

  Rosanne Cash

  Fall, Self, Rivers

  "Interview with Rosanne Cash on Coping, Writing and Savoring the Pleasures of Home". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

  Yugo Nakamura

  Creative, Balance, Digital

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• When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

  Drew Carey

  Media, Creative, Magazines

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

  Victoria Chang

  Creative, Talent, Ability

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Long

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Moving, Book, Fall

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.167, Penguin

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• (The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

  Jerry Lewis

  Creative, Film, Professors

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• Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Ideas, Creative, Copying

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2013

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• All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

  Tennessee Williams

  Creativity, Creative

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Two-character Play”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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