Creativity Quotes - Page 12

• For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

  William Lipscomb

  Sleep, Night, Creative

  "William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2011.

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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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• 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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• When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

  Mathew Tobriner

  Flow, Fields, Sometimes

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• I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

  Greg Lake

  Life, Want, Marking Time

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• In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Real, Believe

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• Bugs Bunny is my muse.

  Billy Collins

  Bunnies, Bugs, Muse

  "Everyday moments, caught in time". "TED Talks", www.ted.com. 2012.

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• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

  Karen Horney

  Men, Creative, Feelings

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Teaching, Writing, Young Writers

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• I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.

  Maya Beiser

  Want, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

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• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

  Ken Robinson

  Ideas, Creative, Possibility

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Creative, Consistency

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• The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

  Teresa Amabile

  Learning, People, Creative

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• There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

  Brené Brown

  Innovation, Periods, Creativity And Innovation

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• I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Comedian

  "Jon Stewart, in his own words" By Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2015.

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Sleep, Whales

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Skills

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• Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.

  Alan Robinson

  Ideas, Innovation, Improvement

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• One often makes music to supplement one's world.

  Brian Eno

  World, Supplements

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• The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Climate, Possibility

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.117, Orient Paperbacks

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• God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

  Arthur Peacocke

  God, Creating, World

  Arthur Peacocke (2013). “Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring”, p.86, Oneworld Publications

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• What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

  Lois Capps

  Use, Energy, Needs

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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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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Writing, Men

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