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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Dance, Learning

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

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• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Stupidity, Inspiration And Creativity

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• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Needs, Political Extremism, World

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964). “Why we can't wait”, Signet

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• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Time, Suffering, Lost

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• When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Differences, Play

  "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Creativity, Fuel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “English Traits”, p.178

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Shakespeare, Woody Allen And A Certain Qantas A380" by Christine Negroni, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Success, Business

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Writing, Creativity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Creativity, Perfection, Judgement

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• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

  Bertrand Russell

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

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• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, World

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

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• Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

  Virginia Woolf

  Creativity, Order, Powerful Women

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

  Steve Wozniak

  Creativity, Sells

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