"Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25."
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"Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal."
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"Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product."
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"The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs."
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"The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives."
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"Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying."
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"What you desire you call into being."
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"Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour."
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"We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation."
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"It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do."
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"It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own."
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"Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you truly love for the right reasons. Never ask your art to support you. If you ask your art to support you it will either end up comprised or you'll be disappointed with it. It's a lot to ask of creativity for it to provide for you financially. Find a scrappy way to get by and then do the work you love for the reasons you love."
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"Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process."
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"I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We're addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics... but I actually think it's better to live a life where you're constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity."
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"Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great."
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"My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing"
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"Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective."
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"I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?"
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"It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack."
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"Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds."
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