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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Creative

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• Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Junk

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.28, Souvenir Press

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• The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creative, Lucky, Machines

  "What 2014 Looked Like 50 Years Ago" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2014.

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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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Program

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

  Tennessee Williams

  Artist, Creative, Age

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

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• I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Believe, Taken, Creativity

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• A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creative, Needs, Arbitrary

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2013). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.35, The New Press

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• The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

  Andrew Greeley

  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

  El Lissitzky

  Art, Believe, Creative

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need. If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.

  Bernie Siegel

  God, Nice, Independent

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• I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

  Leo Burnett

  Believe, Successful, Agency

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