Creative Quotes - Page 19

• Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hands, People, Matter

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• I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

  Pablo Casals

  Creativity, Hands, People

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• Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Engineering

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Curiosity

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• To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Heart, Creativity

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• Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Creativity, Shame, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.374

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• Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Creativity, Expression, Giving

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.8, Penguin

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• Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Art, Creativity

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• If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

  Dale Dauten

  Motivational, Careers, Track

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• Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Commitment, Emotional

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Cute, Men

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.245, Sahitya Akademi

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• Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sex, Artist, Leader

  Napoleon Hill (2005). “Think and Grow Rich with Foreword by Lewis Schiff”, p.138, Lulu.com

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• The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

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• In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Mind, Doe

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• The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creativity, Self, Flow

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". The New York Times Magazine, p. 52, April 25, 1971.

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• We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Appreciation, Artist, Thinking

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• People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, People, Challenges

  Teresa Amabile (1989). “Growing up creative: nurturing a lifetime of creativity”, Crown Pub

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• Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Powerful, Creativity, Secret

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.179, Dell

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• The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

  Jordan Peterson

  Creativity, Normal, Forget

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• The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

  Kabir Helminski

  Care, Awareness, Persons

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• The essence of being human is being creative.

  Joel Garreau

  Essence, Evolution, Being Human

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.263, Broadway Books

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• Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.

  Jimmy Chin

  Photography, Determination, Creativity

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• I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.

  Barbara Paterson

  Teacher, Art, Believe

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• Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

  Jordan Peterson

  Inspirational, Humble, Impossible

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• If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Trying, Sitting

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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