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• Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Leadership, Honesty, Creativity

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• I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.

  Milton S. Hershey

  Leadership, Determination, Chocolate

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• Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.

  Brian Boyle

  Reality, Cities, People

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• The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Reality, Littles

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• I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.

  Michael Eisner

  Dream, Heart, Creativity

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• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Math, Reality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lying, Fall, Romance

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Curiosity

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• Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Ideas, People

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• Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, Brain

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• Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

  Bernard Arnault

  Leadership, Jobs, Freedom

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• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Office, Parent, Degrees

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Life, Letting Go, Firsts

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• It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  T Shirt, Shirts, Destruction

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

  George Lois

  Oxymoron, Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Magic, Different, Stories

  "A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer". MobyLives interview, www.mhpbooks.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Teacher, Art, Hard Work

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• We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Thinking, Blessing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Imagination, Limits, Mediums

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• What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Trying, Crafts

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• It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Exercise, Trying

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Long, Depth, Firsts

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• Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Science, Math

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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