Creative Quotes
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The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
Paul Schrader
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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
Tom Shadyac
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
Wole Soyinka
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What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
Dave Genn
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You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair
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We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.
Celia Brayfield
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I don't want to get ahead at the expense of somebody else. I don't even want to be the center of attention - I mean, yes, I made the movie and I can do all these things, but I don't want to always keep being in the middle of it. I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community. I don't know.
Noel Wells
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I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.
Gayl Jones
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Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.
Reshma Saujani
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Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.
Eric Thomas
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I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.
Renee O'Connor
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If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.
Norman Rockwell
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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
Diane Ackerman
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All men are creative but few are artists.
Paul Goodman
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
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So just talking sync, being the size that we are and the catalogue that we have, we’re everybody’s first phone call. Which is really wonderful in the business, but it’s what you can do after that. Can you execute on the creative that they’re sending?
Brian Monaco
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That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.
Stephenie Meyer
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
Evelyn Underhill
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
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What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.
Nick Heyward
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Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.
Caroline Myss
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Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.
Carl Orr
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The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
Teju Cole
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The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.
Teju Cole