Creative Quotes - Page 36

• Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

  Akio Morita

  Intelligent, People, Next Steps

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 160), 1986.

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• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Home, Journey

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• If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

  Norman Rockwell

  Humorous, Sadness, World

  Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post”, Bookthrift

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• To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.

  Rod Paige

  Perseverance, Art, Children

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• Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

  Scott Caan

  Writing, Drug, Acting

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• You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

  Rick Warren

  Arrows, Criticism, Pioneers

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• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  Alex Grey

  Forever, Soul, Honor

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Education, Believe, Mean

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• There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.

  Kirk Varnedoe

  Innovation, Important, Collaboration

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• The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.

  Midori Snyder

  Girl, Unique, Men

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• You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Men

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• But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Love You, Self Love, Music Love

  "Edie Brickell Ready for 'Picture Perfect' Comeback". www.today.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

  Christie Hefner

  Creativity, People, Life Is Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.

  Naum Gabo

  Plato, Reflection, Reality

  Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.

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• Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Effort, Jam, Cybernetics

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

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• The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life

  Viktor Schauberger

  Life, Nature, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.22, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Life, Power, Would Be

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• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Men, Inspire

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2400, Delphi Classics

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Jobs, Real, Learning

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

  Robert Grudin

  Beauty, Beautiful, Simple

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

  Peter Salovey

  Leadership, People, Problem

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• Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Discovery, Mind

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• A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Knowledge, Diversity

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