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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

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"There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics."

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"Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms."

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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

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"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision."

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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."

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"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."

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"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."

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"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."

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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better."

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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

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"Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity."

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"Sarah Connor How are you supposed to know Men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something to create a life to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death..."

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"Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear."

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."

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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

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"It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."

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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it."

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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition."

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"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself."

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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means."

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"Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering."

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"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself."

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"The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority."

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"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven."

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"The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things."

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"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations."

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"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

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"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness."

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"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

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"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving."

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"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."

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"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."

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"If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative."

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"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

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"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."

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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery."

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"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."

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"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."

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"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

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"All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination."

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"The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline."

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"Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave."

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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created."

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"What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream."

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"Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences."

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"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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"Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative."

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"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."

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"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."

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"We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves."

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"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything."

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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman."

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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

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"We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself."

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"It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry."

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"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

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"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."

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