"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
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"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
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"It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be."
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"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors."
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"Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes"
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"Creativity is the art of concealing your sources."
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
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"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"There's a way to do it better - find it."
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"Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent."
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"All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe."
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"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
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"What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up."
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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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"Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?"
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"Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity."
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"The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power."
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"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."
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