Creativity Quotes

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  Creativity is intelligence having fun.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Quiet Moments, Monotonous Life

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• The opposite of creativity is cynicism

  Esa Saarinen

  Opposites, Cynical, Cynicism

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• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Humor, Thinking, Ideas

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• Creativity is just connecting things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Connecting

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem.

  George Lois

  Originality, Problem, Habit

  George Lois (2008). “George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea”, Editions Assouline

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• Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.

  Silvano Arieti

  Use, Way, Unpredictable

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Essence, Soul, Transcendentalism

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Self, Raw Materials, Life Is

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

  John Bradshaw

  Lost Love, Frustrated, Way

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.5, Bantam

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• Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Creative, Mystery

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Ideas, Creating, Innovation

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.204, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

  Tori Amos

  Creative, Trying, Rooms

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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• Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Contagious

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• It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

  Nicholas Lea

  Scales, Seems

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

  Tina Turner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Creative, Want

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 13, 2011

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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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• All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.17, New World Library

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Thinking, Imagination

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• Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

  Brené Brown

  Expression, World, Helping

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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