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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Creativity

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward."

Writing Life Creativity
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Creativity

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder."

Sleep Creativity Ocean
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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
Creativity

"Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with."

Wise Creativity Creative
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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
Creativity

"Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing."

Artist Powerful Creativity
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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
Creativity

"Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly."

People Needs Creativity
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Creativity

"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make."

Men Art Creativity
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Adam Grant Organizational Psychologist, Author
Creativity

"Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity."

Creativity Enemy Procrastination
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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
Creativity

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

Mean Creativity Reflection
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