Creativity Quotes - Page 26

• You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

  Twyla Tharp

  Crafts, Kidding Yourself, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

  Anna Silk

  Creative, Needs, Break

  Source: collider.com

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• We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our lack of fulfillment is the most precious gift we have. It is the source of our passion, our creativity, our search for God. All the best of life comes out of our human yearning, our not being satisfied.

  Gerald May

  Passion, Independent, Reality

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• I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running the Olympics that you can get money there to help build economic opportunities. We actually got over $410 million from the federal government; that is a huge increase over anything ever done before. We did that by going after every agency of government. That kind of creativity I want to bring to everything we do (in Massachusetts).

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Opportunity, Agency

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• It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

  Julia Cameron

  Creative, Use, Heal

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 27, 2014

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• Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Loss, Punishment

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.45, Penguin

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• Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

  Charles Handy

  Confusion, Glimpse, Chaos

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• When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Errors, Play, Disappear

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• Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

  George Gilder

  Ideas, Creative, Progress

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• I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

  Henri Bergson

  Believe, I Believe, Moments

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• While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

  David Neeleman

  Brain, Chaos, Kind

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• Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Passion, Persistence, Resilience

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• I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.

  Charlie Haden

  Baby, Eye, Class

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• Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

  John Ralston Saul

  Hands, Management, Problem

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

  Guy Claxton

  Cat, May, Evolution

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• Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Imagination, Use, Problem

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• But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do, if they were in regular circumstances. Their true humanity comes out - the good and the bad. Something else that was fun was that every director would come in so excited to go with their own creativity.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Fun, Character, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people because people just really quickly become disinterested when they're always being told how to do it.

  Janusz Kaminski

  People, Manage, Disinterested

  Source: collider.com

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• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

  Adam Shankman

  Swimming, Sharks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Opposites, Stories, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Errors, Information, Gaps

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• The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Beautiful, People, World

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• We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Awareness, Creator

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• I think because of the iPhone and the fact that we now have a ubiquitous internet, our creativity in the startup space is 10 times different. Every single industry, every single market, is going to be technology-driven in some way. There's an infinite opportunity for startups because now you can go and solve problems that previously looked like they had nothing to do with technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

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