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• Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Needs, Lasts, Enough

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• The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

  Rick Springfield

  Writing, School, Night

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• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, Leader, Visionaries

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• Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Empowering, Being Different

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

  Oswald Spengler

  Reading, Be Creative

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative
  exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the
  creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will
  inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy,
  and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and,
  above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  Bernice Rubens

  Blessed, Home, Writing

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• I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

  Marilyn Monroe

  Creativity, Sadness, Sick

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• What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

  Jodie Foster

  Art, Creativity, Answers

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• I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

  Florence Welch

  Creativity, Expression, Ideas

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• Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Artist, Advice, Way

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• Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' in all areas of life.

  Patti Austin

  Opportunity, Empowering, Age

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• If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Different, Individual

  "The Creative Personality" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

  Jean Toomer

  School, Men, Matter

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• What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

  Tracy Kidder

  Creativity, Fiction, Territory

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• If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

  Tony Robbins

  Way, Determined, Emotion

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• Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.

  Guy Murchie

  Strong, Skeletons, Skulls

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.220, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change.

  Terry Rossio

  Stars, Writing, Order

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• I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

  Busta Rhymes

  Albums, Levels, Introducing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychology, Energy, Revision

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• Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.

  Marleen S. Barr

  Art, Communication, Cells

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• So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Four, Littles

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.722, Penguin

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• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  Yves Klein

  Preparation, Titles, Ashes

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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