Creative Quotes - Page 37

• Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

  Ron Miriello

  Creativity, People, Design

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• Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.

  Joseph Curiale

  Love, Creativity, Creating

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• The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Government, Ideas

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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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• Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Intuition, Behind The Scenes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.244, My Ebook Publishing House

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• We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then ... control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.

  David Allen

  Time, Stars, Stress

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• Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Worry, Attention, Want

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.57, Penguin

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• We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Intelligent, Supreme

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• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

  Richard Hamming

  Inspirational, Thinking, Dangerous

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• The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

  Ernest Becker

  Keys, World, Common

  Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.176, Souvenir Press

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• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Way, Reins

  "Lorne Michaels: the inscrutable kingmaker of comedy" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

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• The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

  William Bernbach

  Success, Moving, Men

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• Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

  Norman Foster

  Practice, Directors, Individual

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• Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Inspiring, Albums, Labels

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• When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

  Ann Beattie

  New York, Distance, Cities

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• Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Important, Tiny, Fractions

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

  Trish Stratus

  Team, Character, Personality

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Program, Century

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Learning, Creativity, Simple

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• To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in.

  Ellen Langer

  Creativity, Natural, States

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• When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

  Lili Taylor

  Essence, Acting, Way

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• The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.

  Christian Siriano

  Fashion, Fun, Gay

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• Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

  David Platt

  Successful, Church Today, Keys

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