"Time is clay. Go make something."
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"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."
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"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place."
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"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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"Creativity is just connecting things. 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."
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"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."
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"Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work."
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"Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together."
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"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."
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"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
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"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem."
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"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
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"When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way."
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"One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself."
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"We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time."
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"As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me."
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
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"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."
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"But out of limitations comes creativity."
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"Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein."
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