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Japanese Proverb I will master something, then the creativity will come.
Nnamdi Azikiwe Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Ray Bradbury We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Alexander Graham Bell An inventor 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.
Jacob Bronowski 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.
Edward Steichen You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes
Peter Nivio Zarlenga We will not know unless we begin.
Japanese Proverb I will master something, then the creativity will come.
Michael J. Gelb Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Edwin H. Land Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
B. J. Gupta Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money.
Joel Hildebrand The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
Michele Shea Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
Edward De Bono Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
R. I. Fitzhenry Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
George Lois Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.
Mary Lou Cook Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Jean Piaget 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.
I Ching Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.
Fritjof Capra In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.
Erich Fromm Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.
Alexander Osborn Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.
Pope John Paul II Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
Lou Dorfsman 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.
Nnamdi Azikiwe Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
John Updike Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.
Norman Podhoretz Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
John F. Welch 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.
Joel H. Hildebrand The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
Daniel Day Lewis You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
Unknown Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity.
Andrea Canaan It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing.
Ray Douglas Bradbury 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.
Sybil Marshall I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.
John W. Gardner 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.
Daisaku Ikeda 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.
Charles Mingu Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Good taste is the enemy of creativity
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
"Limitations are stepping stones to creativity." -- Joel Corn
"Freedom's a state of mind - pure creativity - even in captivity"
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-Einstein
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
"They forge their creativity...closer to the heart." -Rush
"Creativity is hiding your sources." -- Rein*Hagen
"The shower is, for me, a great source of creativity." -- Butler
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
"Without freedom of choice there is no creativity." - Kirk.
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the ro
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 doo
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

 

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