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"Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations."
"Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do."
"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination"
"All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small."
"Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life."
"Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation."
"When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God."
"The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality."
"The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety."
"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal"
"If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."
"True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion."
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
"In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."
"Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting."
"Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!"
"You don't make art, you find it"
