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• When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Color, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.84, Convergent Books

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• Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Godly, Cheerful

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, Tuesday, Creative

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

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• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

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• Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

  Florence King

  Ideas, Innovation, Guilt

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Play

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  Dee Hock

  Meditation, Mind, Furniture

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• Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

  Edward de Bono

  Teamwork, Strong, Thinking

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• People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Creative, Being Different

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Men

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Effectiveness

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• Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

  Edward de Bono

  Giving, Achievement, Possibility

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Imagination

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

  William Bernbach

  Belief, Ads, Ten

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• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Study, Distraction, Exciting

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• Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Ideas, Underestimate, Very Positive

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.96, Orient Paperbacks

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• Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

  Ed McCabe

  Competition, Way, Lasts

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• Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

  Rollo May

  Definitions, Born

  "The Courage to Create".

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• The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

  Herbie Hancock

  Art, People, Serious

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• The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Passion

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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• We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

  Julia Cameron

  Creative, Creation, Force

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.15, Penguin

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• Music will save the world.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, World, Save The World

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• When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

  Ernest Holmes

  Thinking, Ideas, New Ideas

  Ernest Holmes, Raymond Charles Barker (2016). “365 Days of Richer Living: Daily Inspirations”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intuition, Needs, World

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