Inspiration And Creativity Quotes

• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Creative Collaboration

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• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Writing, May

  "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".

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• Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

  Robert M. Hayes

  Taken, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

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• Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

  William James

  Creativity, Mean, Science

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational Life, Creativity, Self

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creativity, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Creativity, Meditation, Mind

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Creativity, People

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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