Creativity Quotes
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Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
Carisa Bianchi
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We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?
William McDonough
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Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.
Wynn Bullock
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Stop the negativity and control our creativity
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.
Michael Masser
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
Scott Adams
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I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.
Jon Favreau
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Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.
Bob Schmetterer
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Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
Marshall McLuhan
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
Ren Ng
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If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
Vincent Van Gogh
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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
Eric Maisel
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Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.
Nancy Lam
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It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
Sufjan Stevens
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Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
Eyvind Kang
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Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
Ben Chestnut
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Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.
William O. Douglas
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The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.
Herbie Hancock
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I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.
William Gurstelle
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What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf
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Creativity comes from the part of the brain that is veritable soup of experiences, memories and influences. We really don't like to start questioning exactly where it comes from, in case it stops coming.
Rhianna Pratchett