C Quotes
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“Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.”
“Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.”
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
“Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.”
“Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.”
“Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.”
“Creativity should not be contained, it should be channelized.”
Source: How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making
“Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.”
“Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.”
Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”
Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.”
“Creativity sparks where comfort fades—dare to disrupt the status quo, and you’ll unleash possibilities the world has yet to imagine.”
“Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“Creativity stands at the center of all education.”
“Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.”
“Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.”
“Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous”
“Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.”
“Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.”
“Creativity takes Imagination, Imagination takes Courage, Courage takes Curiosity, and Curiosity leads to Success.”
“Creativity tempered by sound judgment is the currency of the new economy. It remains largely an open playing field for anyone who wants to relearn on a daily basis everything they thought they knew.”
“Creativity thrives best when constrained.”
“Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.”
“Creativity thrives on inspiration, not burnout. Take a walk, pick up a new hobby, or simply soak in beauty.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women
“Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.”
Source: Green Illusions
“Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.”
“Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.”
“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.”
“Creativity's about ownership.”
“Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.”
“Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.”
“Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.”
“Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.”
“Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.”
“Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.”
“Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.”
“Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.”
“Creator created everything, He created the Universe and everything in him, He created
the possibility of creating for us, human beings also”
“Creator is not a system it just
is”
“Creator of indifferences” is the motto I want for my spirit today. I'd like my life's activity to consist, above all, in educating others to feel more and more for themselves, and less and less according to the dynamic low of collectiveness. To educate people in that spiritual antisepsis which precludes contamination by commonness and vulgarity is the loftiest destiny I can imagine for the pedagogue of inner discipline that I aspire to be. If all who read me would learn – slowly, of course, as the subject matter requires – to be completely insensitive to the other people's opinions and even their glances, that would be enough of a garland to make up for my life's scholastic stagnation.”
“Creator of the universe, of the countless stars and more;
The One who gifted life on earth, is this the God you know?
Or is the God you pray to, one sold to you by man;
A God created in man’s image, to serve his selfish plan?”
Source: No Shadow Without Light
“Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.”
“Creators almost always go mad.”
Source: Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
“Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.”
“Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.”
Source: The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel
“Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.”
Source: Beautiful Losers