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It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.
Author: John Saxe
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Author: Miles Davis
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We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.
Author: Gilbert George
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Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Author: Gerald Holton
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Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
Author: Alfonso X
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... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
Author: Thomas Browne
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Ideas are the root of creation.
Author: Ernest Dimnet
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Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
Author: Chalres Chic Thompson
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Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
Author: Frank Goble
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It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Author: Mary Henle
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Author: Robert Cecil Day-lewis
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Author: Georges-louis Leclerc Buffon
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Author: Anna Freud
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Author: Mark Twain
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Author: Sholem Asch
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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Author: Charles Browder
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Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Author: Mary Lou Cook
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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Author: De Chateaubriand
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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Author: Charles Du Bos
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Author: Cecil B. Demille
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Author: Voltaire
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
Author: Brian Aldiss
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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
Author: Clement Greenberg
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Author: E. L. Doctorow
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Author: Robert Flaherty
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Author: Tony Bennett
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Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Author: Howard Aiken
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
Author: Charles Du Bos
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Author: Edward Albee
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
Author: Carl Ally
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Some people see things and ask Why?
I dream things which never were and askWhy not?
Author: Ketaki Bhave
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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.
Author: Lou Dorfsman
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It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".
Author: Eric Clapton
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Author: Edward De Bono
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Author: Isaac Newton
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Author: Charles Brower
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Author: Aesop
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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