"To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
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"Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future."
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"A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man"
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"Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found."
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"In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income."
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"Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear."
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"Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil."
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"Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work."
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"To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
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"Creativity is never too contrived."
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"Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation."
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"Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas."
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"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
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"To get a great idea, come up with lots of them."
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."
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"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
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"The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"
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"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."
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"Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!"
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