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Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS, The Dilbert Principle
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.
NORMAN PODHORETZ, Playboy, Dec. 1968
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.
STEPHEN COVEY, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
JULIA CAMERON, Heart Steps
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, attributed, How to Think Like Einstein
Creativity of all kinds, in art, in prayer, in justice-making, in human relationships, is born where people wrestle with angels, outside Eden, on the border between heaven and earth, where they struggle to create a new form, a new song, a new template, a new ethic with all the discipline and passion they can bring to bear.
KATHY GALLOWAY, introduction, Dreaming of Eden
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
ARTHUR KOESTLER, Drinkers of Infinity
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
EDWIN LAND, attributed, The Executives Book of Quotations
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF, A Writer's Diary, May 11, 1920
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
ERICH FROMM, attributed, 1,001 Pearls of Wisdom
Creativity is that delicate combination of elements that result in new ideas and innovations.
ALFREDA DOYLE, Poetry about Creativity
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Artists know that there is no creativity without a system of formal restraints.
KATHY GALLOWAY, introduction, Dreaming of Eden
Without freedom, there is no creation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, On Freedom
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
CARL SAGAN, Broca's Brain
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.
RON CARTER, Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
ANTHONY BURGESS, attributed, Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
ERNEST HOLMES, This Thing Called You
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
RAY KROC, attributed, Encarta Book of Quotations
Creation is a disturbing force in society because it is a constructive one. It upsets the old order in the acts of building a new one. This activity is salutary for society. It is, indeed, essential for the maintenance of society's health; for the one thing that is certain about human affairs is that they are perpetually on the move, and the work of creative spirits is what gives society a chance of directing its inevitable movement along constructive instead of destructive lines.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE, Widening Horizons in Creativity
Creativity is the ability each of us has to create something new by bringing together two or more different elements in a new context.
ANDY GREEN, Creativity in Public Relations
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
EDWARD DE BONO, Lateral Thinking for Management
Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
NNAMDI AZIKIWE, speech, Nov. 11, 1934
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
WILLIAM BERNBACH, Bill Bernbach Said...
Creativity is the source of novelty and of the creative advance, which leads to the concretion of actual entities that have not previously existed.
FRIEDRICH RAPP, Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
FRANK CAPRA, attributed, The New Scriptwriter's Journal
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
CHINUA ACHEBE, Anthills of the Savannah
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
ROBERTA JEAN BRYANT, Anybody Can Write
Creativity is a potent element of individual life experience and is the soil at the root of much of human progress and endeavour.
MICHAEL A. WEST, Developing Creativity in Organizations
Creativity perpetually invents itself.
PAUL PALNIK, Creative Consciousness
To me, creativity is a vision and the actualization of that vision. This vision is a unit; it is complete and pregnant. Just as night gives birth to day, the seed to a plant, an ovum to a child; so too a creative vision gives birth indefinitely and its actualization produces scientific, artistic or religious forms.
A. REZA ARASTEH & J. D. ARASTEH, Creativity in the Life-cycle
Creativity is an incremental process--the instant Big Idea does not exist.
ANDY GREEN, Creativity in Public Relations
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
EDWARD DE BONO, Lateral Thinking for Management
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
GEORGE LOIS, The Art of Advertising
Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being.... We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to--even surrender to--the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.
STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH, Free Play
To think outside of the box you must be outside of the box.
ALFREDA DOYLE, Poetry about Creativity
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