Creativity Quotes - Page 29

• Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Joy, Shame

  "..is #PANPOLY a dilemma?" by Adrienne Wu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2017.

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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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• A good smell puts me in a great mood and even inspires my creativity.

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Smell, Inspire, Mood

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.

  Andy Kindler

  Sarcastic, Class, Interesting

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• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Lying, Character

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.

  Doug Pagitt

  Creating, Creative, World

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• Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.

  Immortal Technique

  Soul, Facts, Metaphor

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Creating, Twenties

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

  Adam Duritz

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

  Patrick Califia

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Flower, Praise, Delicate

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Deities, Genius, Done

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Expression, Generosity, Different

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

  John Hodgman

  Feelings, Dimensions

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Focus, Looks

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

  Rollo May

  Mean, Self, Levels

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Gentle

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Agency, Lexicon

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• Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Mind, Trying

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• Hip hop is just a reflection of what's going on, or where the art is....Technology definitely gives artists a new mind, new voice and creativity. Right now people need to be more places at once....so whatever can get people to the next level to be efficient is how technology is going to be used......The danger is if people are relying too much on the machines, that new mind and new voice always has to come from within.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Art, Reflection, Technology

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• I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Ideas, Discipline

  "I've felt famous my whole life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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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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• 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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