Creative Quotes - Page 11

• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

  Theodore Levitt

  Simple, Thinking, Innovation

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creativity, Intuition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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• To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

  John H. Johnson

  Leadership, Encouragement, Creativity

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Letters, Want

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• I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

  Henry Hopper

  Integrity, Struggle, Compromise

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• While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

  Henry Hopper

  Art, Want, Planets

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• When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

  Donald Glover

  Lucky, Pay, Be Creative

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. March 19, 2010.

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• We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

  Khalil Gibran

  Son, Sorrow, Musician

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.

  Alex Winston

  Singing, Identity, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People call what we do "stretch music." This is our style, and one of the newer, in vogue ways of playing creative, improvised music. It really grew out of me trying to address something that I saw in my everyday life in my neighborhood - trying to develop that and refine that and excavate exactly what that was in a way that, when I communicated it, it was palpable and easily read. That started really early. Why it started was from something that I was really angry about.

  Christian Scott

  People, Everyday, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

  Christopher Bollen

  Fun, People, Dating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies - from Zappos, to Starbucks, to American Apparel - for examples of how this idea might play itself out. We need to do more to make service jobs into higher-paying family-supporting jobs of the future.

  Richard Florida

  Empowering, Community, Participation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You want to have the experience. As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. You got on a film sometimes and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not. We're good at saying what other people have written, but for the majority of it, that's about it, comedians aside. It's all in the writing. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

  Wes Bentley

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Hollywood is a very liberal community. There are a lot of guys that are also conservative that are frightened or fearful of being able to come out. And there's also the alternative. I'm one of the few conservatives that are involved with the Creative Coalition. It's trying to propagate the arts in schools and education, and a lot of things I believe in. It's a bipartisan thing, but when there is this strong partisanship... The other thing is, I'm pro-life, that's absolute, but I'm for live and let live. I'm an entertainer, I don't believe in stopping anyone's freedoms of lifestyle.

  Robert Davi

  Art, Strong, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

  Christopher Bollen

  Challenges, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In music so many people who have been addicts or suicidal are legends. People have this mentality, still, of thinking that if they go take care of themselves then they won't be as creative as they used to be. But I think that's bullshit. I bought into that one for years and I regret it because when I first went on medications, I thought I wouldn't be funny anymore. I thought I'd have to figure out a new life path but at least I'd be alive. But it turns out that I'm actually way more funny and organized and able to have a career now that I'm able to have my head on straight.

  Chris Gethard

  Regret, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: razorcake.org

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• Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Optimistic, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and knowledge are our most important resources now. Every city has hidden seeds of opportunity waiting to be nurtured. Places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh are among my favorite cities. They have great universities, clusters of innovation across a range of industries, and pools of innovative and creative talent to build on.

  Richard Florida

  Past, Opportunity, Waiting

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful beautiful, eclectic, diary, or narration of being in America, being American, participating in America, becoming more of America and also as an American, the American creative spirit, which is quite interesting. Our composers and poets have spent more time writing and thinking and speaking out of what it means to be a composer or poet as well as to be an American, or a composer or poet In America; both relationships.

  Thomas Hampson

  Beautiful, Art, Powerful

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money." It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.

  Gavin Friday

  Giving, Charity, Making Money

  Source: bigthink.com

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