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Maria Trautmann On January - 27 - 2011

creativity quotes

~ Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ~ Alan Alda

‎~ Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

‎~ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw

‎~ The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. ~ Jean Caldwell

~ Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ~ Earl Nightingale

~ Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ~ Bo Bennett

‎~ Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler

‎~ Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ~ Pablo Picasso

~ The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein

‎~ If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. ~ Jean Piaget

‎~ Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought. ~ Einstein

‎~ People are being educated out of their creative capacity. We do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it. ~ Sir Ken Robinson

‎~ Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple – that’s creativity. ~ Charles Mingus

‎~ Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ~ Rita Mae Brown

‎~ Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook

‎~ Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. ~ Thomas Disch

~ Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~ Edward De Bono

~ The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead

~ The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good sense.’ ~ Pablo Picasso

~ Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ~ Nolan Bushnell

~ Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. ~ Theodore Levitt

~ The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein

~ Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams

~ 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

~ There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there isn’t. ~ Tori Amos

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8 Responses so far.

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  4. kopi luwak says:

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  5. Tony Tjong says:

    Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile Therefore let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch! “Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.” by Duncan Maxwell Anderson.

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  7. Cool quotes. Here’s one that I like from Steve Grand, author of “Creation,” “Things that persist, persist; Things that don’t, don’t”
    This is how species evolve over long periods of time through evolution – perhaps the most awesome creative process. But I think that it also teaches us that no matter what our innate creative talents are, much of what we do requires the grit to keep slinging jello at the wall.

    • Thank you, Bill. I like your personal quote: “…no matter what our innate creative talents are, much of what we do requires the grit to keep slinging jello at the wall.” That’s a keeper!

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