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I will master something, then the creativity will come.
-Japanese Proverb
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-Scott Adams
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
-Edward Albee
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
-Brian W. Aldiss
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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
-Alfonso X
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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, flower arranging, and 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 down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
-Carl Ally
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
-Antonin Artaud
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
-Sholem Asch
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
-W. H. Auden
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
-Nnamdi Azikiwe
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An inventor is a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
-Arnold Bennett
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
-Warren Bennis
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
-William Blake
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We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
-Ray Bradbury
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
-Robert Bresson
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I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.
-Jacob Bronowski
Science and Human Values (Ch.2 - The Habit of Truth)
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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
-Charles Browder
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-Rita Mae Brown
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-Pearl Buck
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
-Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
-Julius Caesar
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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
-Frank Capra
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
-Coco Chanel
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Books about Creativity
