"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
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"The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities."
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"Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time."
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"The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears."
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"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned."
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"In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever."
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"The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species."
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"Labor gives birth to ideas."
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"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
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"Don't wait for permission to do something creative."
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"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."
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"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
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"What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings."
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
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"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
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"Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form."
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."
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"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
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"Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way."
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