Inspire Creativity Quotes - Page 4

• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Tree, Becoming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Dance, Love Life

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  Ken Robinson

  Failure, Creativity, Originality

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• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Beautiful, Work

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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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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 31, 2013

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• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Success, God

  Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Creativity, Ice Cream

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
  imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

  William L. McKnight

  Inspirational, Creativity, Sheep

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• I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Thinking, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

  Diane Ackerman

  Creativity, Ideas, Worry

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