Creativity Quotes - Page 31

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

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Errors, Play, Disappear

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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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• Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Luxury

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.114, Random House

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

  Guy Claxton

  Cat, May, Evolution

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Beautiful, Dream, Drama

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

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• I'm really interested in the link between creativity and humor because humor is a type of creativity, and I do think that humorous people and humorous health helps creativity.

  Robert Mankoff

  Humorous, Thinking, People

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.

  Shailene Woodley

  Zero, Eight, Tv Shows

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• Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

  Bryan Cranston

  Actors, Able, Directors

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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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• Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Giving, Visionaries

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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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• Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Children, Keys, Omnipotence

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• Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stones, Way, Steps

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• The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

  Melanie Klein

  Roots, Needs, Phases

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• Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Real Life, Ifs

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