"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
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"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
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"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born."
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"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
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"One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities."
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"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
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"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
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"People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation."
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"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
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"The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken."
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"All progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
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"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits."
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
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"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought."
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"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
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"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
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"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
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