"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."
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"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."
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"There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots."
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"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world."
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"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets."
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"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
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"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
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"When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something."
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
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"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
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"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."
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"You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!"
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"MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE , AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON."
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"To define is to limit."
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"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
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"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent."
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
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