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Creativity |
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| "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you
something." |
| -- Frank Capra (1897 - 1991), American director |
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our
reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three
means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not
common." |
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-- Denis Diderot (1713-84),
French philosopher, writer |
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"Creativity
comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more
than you work."
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| -- Rita Mae
Brown, American writer and playwright
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"Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the
future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without
fear." |
| -- Abraham Maslow (1908-70),
American psychologist, founder humanistic psychology |
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| "Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did
not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
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--
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher and
paleontologist
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"The
universe if made of stories, not atoms."
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--
Muriel
Rukeyser |
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| "Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what
is impossible for talent is genius." |
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-- Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer
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"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the
same as what they most want to do." |
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-- W. H. Auden, poet, dramatist, and editor
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| "These are the prerogatives of genius: to know without having
learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the
soul of things." |
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--
Ambrose Bierce, American journalist and short-story writer |
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"I look for what needs to be done… After all, that's how the
universe designs itself." |
| --
R. Buckminster Fuller
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| "Where there is joy there is creation.
Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of
joy." |
| -- Maitri Upanishads (c. BC 800-) |
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| "If your daily life seems poor, do not
blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth
its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty." |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| "Creativity is the sudden cessation of
stupidity." |
| -- Edwin Land (1902 - 1983), American writer,
philosopher, longshoreman |
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| "Creativity varies inversely with the
number of cooks involved in the broth." |
| -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1895 - 1982), American
advertising executive |
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| “Creative
power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold
into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can
flow and take the desired form.” |
| -- Thomas Troward |
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"Never
tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity."
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-- George S. Patton(1885-1945), American military
leader
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| "The
greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."
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-- Henry S.
Haskins
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| "Creativity is a type of learning process
where the teacher and pupil are located in the same
individual." |
| -- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983),
Hungarian-English novelist, essayist |
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| "Creativity is a highfalutin word for the
work I have to do between now and Tuesday." |
| -- Ray Kroc (1902 - 1984), American businessman,
restaurateur |
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| "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be,
one must be."
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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), American
psychologist
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| "A creative man is motivated by the desire
to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." |
| -- Ayn Rand (1905-82), Russian-born American
writer |
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| "In creating, the only hard thing is to
begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." |
| -- James Russel Lowell (1819-91), American
editor, poet, diplomat |
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| "The Creative knows the great beginnings.
The Receptive completes the finished things." |
| -- I Ching (BC 1150) |
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| "The creative impulses of man are always
at war with the possessive impulses." |
| -- Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963), American
critic, historian |
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| "He
or she who would create must experience and be aware of experience.
The quintessential creator lives paradoxically in two worlds:
totally immersed in experience and totally estranged from experience
in reflection. Like a cork bobbing one moment above the surface and
the next moment below the surface, the creator fishes for the new
out of the old. Creativity is the mystery that happens in the
convergence of the fisherman, the cork, and the fish." |
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--
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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"They are ill
discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but
sea."
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Francis Bacon
(1561-1626), English philosopher
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| "Creativity is the power to connect the
seemingly unconnected." |
| -- William Plomer (1903 - 1973) South
African-British man of letters |
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"When a
distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he
is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he
is very probably wrong."
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| --
Arthur C. Clarke
(b.1917),British science fiction writer
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"Genius Does what it must, and talent does what
it can."
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--
Arthur Miller
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| "Great things are
not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
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| --
Vincent Van Gogh |
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| "Periods of tranquility are seldom
profilic of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred
up." |
| -- Alfred North Whitehead |
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"I
learned inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic,
energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the
time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to
start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." |
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--
Brenda
Ueland (1891-1986), American Writer
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| "Everything should
be made as simple as possible... but not simpler."
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--
Albert Einstein
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| "Poetry
can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels." |
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Northrop
Frye |
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| "He
who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
darkening me." |
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--
Thomas
Jefferson |
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| "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of
creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is
lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply
"must" do things." |
| -- Ray Bradbury (1920 - ____), American science-fiction writer |
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| "Creativity requires the courage to let go
of certainties." |
| -- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), German-born
American
psychoanalyst |
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| "It is still an unending source of surprise for me
how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the
course of human affairs." |
| -- Stanislaw Ulam |
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| "Conditions
for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and
tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
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-- Erich
Fromm (1900-80), German-born American psychoanalyst |
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| "I do not think there is any thrill that can go
through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some
creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man
forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." |
| -- Nikola Tesla, scientist |
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| "The creation of something new is not accomplished
by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The
creative mind plays with the objects it loves." |
| -- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961),
Swiss psychiatrist |
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| "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a
ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in
a restaurant's revolving door." |
| -- Albert Camus (1913-60),
French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher |
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| "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try
to do things. You simply must do things." |
| -- Ray Douglas Bradbury (b.
1920), American science fiction writer |
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| "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you
something." |
| -- Frank Capra (1897-1991),
American film director |
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| "Originality is nothing but judicious
imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from
another." |
| -- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778),
French philosopher, |
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| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make
mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." |
| -- Scott Adams (b. 1957), American cartoonist,
author |
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| "Creativity is essentially a lonely art.
An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It
is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth
from your very soul an idea." |
| -- Lou Dorfsman, graphic artist |
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| "Creativity comes from awakening and
directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of
the universe and are appointed by Heaven." |
| -- I Ching (BC 1150) |
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| "Creativity is merely a plus name for
regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer
cares about doing it right, or better." |
| -- John Updike (b. 1932), American novelist,
short-story writer, poet |
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| "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced
by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the
wellspring of initiative and creativity." |
| -- Pope John Paul II (b. 1920),
[Karol Wojtyla] Roman Catholic leader |
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| "Creativity
is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes
creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better." |
| -- John Hoyer Updike (b. 1932),
American writer |
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| "I must create a system, or be enslaved by
another man's." |
| -- William Blake (1757-1827), British poet |
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| "We know where most of the creativity,
the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-- in the minds of
those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along
while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to
become Japanese-- or at least manage like them." |
| -- John F. Welch |
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| "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try
to do things. You simply must do things." |
| -- Ray Douglas Bradbury (b.
1920), American writer of science fiction |
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| "The writer who possesses the creative
gift owns something of which he is not always master-- something that at
time strangely wills and works for itself." |
| -- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55),
English novelist, poet |
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| "Creativity can be described as letting go
of certainties." |
| -- Gail Sheehy (1937 - ____) US writer,
journalist, editor |
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| "Creativity arises out of the tension
between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river
banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are
essential to the work of art or poem." |
| -- Rollo May (1909 - 1994), US psychoanalyst |
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- "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and
asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher,
Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day
we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the
best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out
of their light."
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| -- John W. Gardner |
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| "Thus, the creative genius may be at once
naive and knowledgeable; being at home equally to primitive
symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more
cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally
crazier and yet adamantly saner than the average person." |
| -- Frank X. Barron (Creative &
Personal Freedom) |
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| "You must not for one instant give up the
effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push
open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy
struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world,
for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult
than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." |
| -- Daisaku Ikeda |
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| "The mainspring of creativity appears to
be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative
force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to
become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human
life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to
express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the
self." |
| -- Carl Rogers, American psychologist |
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