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“Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.”

Form Opportunity Liberty Creative Various Decay Monstrous Chaotic Aristocracy Unfairness Meritocracy Equality Of Opportunity Total Equality

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

People Way Writing Said Problem Inspiration Attention Creative Special Conditions Poet Demand Madness Concentration Vocation Creative Writing

Author:Stephen Spender

“Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.”

People Way Feels Heart Littles Artist Creative Havens Workers Track Satisfied Accomplished Mediocrity Worthwhile Beaten Confined Creative Work

Author:Albert Einstein

“The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.”

Giving Children Enough Can Do Creative Teacher Taught Concerned Impulse Flames Providing Vocation Oxygen Working With Children

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.”

Inspiration Love Is Creative Fire Progress Torches

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.”

Way Creative Mum Energetic Gregarious

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.”

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Author:Walter Isaacson

“Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.”

Men Individual Understanding Love Is Creative Defeat Refusal Goodwill

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.”

Feels Ends Done Creative Discussion The End Of The Day Feel Better

Author:Liev Schreiber

“A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.”

People Creative Ideals Towns Corporate Entity Small Town

Author:John Krasinski

“Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.”

People Remember Spirit Creative Fans Products Fortune Surprise Critics Thanks Awards Reviews Joyous Creative People Emmys

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.”

Trying Kind Stills Hours Decision Half Creative Comedy Tvs Scene Models Cables Half Hours Confluence Cable Tv

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I've never had a working relationship like I have with them. I developed a lot of the design of this show with them. That conversation was about, "What are your needs? What are you looking for? Will this work for you guys? Will a show work where you've got one episode per character?" They really were a creative partner.”

Needs Character Shows Guy Creative Design Conversation Partners Episodes

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I think everyone's going to really try to keep costs down. The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. I can protect my filmmakers from any form of creative interference, be it from anywhere, if we're all acting in a responsible way and making the pain of a failure be as little as possible.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Littles I Can Pain Form Acting Creative Cost Protect Responsible Filmmaker Interference

Author:Eric Fellner

“I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.”

Long Ideas Process Creative Long Time Collaboration Exploring Creative Collaboration

Author:Sacha Gervasi

“My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.”

Roles Creative Producers Maintaining Truthfulness

Author:Jeffrey Donovan

“The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don't have very many opportunities. There isn't much time, so you want to make sure you're going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you're going to have a good creative experience doing. You're taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful.”

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Author:Ty Burrell

“I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.”

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Author:Ty Burrell

“I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.”

People Wells I Can Ideas Creative Smart Creative People

Author:Rick Heinrichs

“You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.”

People Feels Character Jobs Dies Audience Creative Nice Cry Tvs Horror Connections Mediums When Someone Dies

Author:Glen Mazzara

“Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner. You evaluate the creative and how the show is run and how the writing staff works, and sometimes you want to freshen the show. We just decided that it was time to do that on Community, and no disrespect to anyone.”

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Author:Robert Greenblatt

“Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.”

Writing Feelings Creative Sitting Frustrated Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.”

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Author:Emmanuelle Chriqui

“The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.”

Ifs Feels Trying Mind Process Loses Worry Creative Please Concern Scary Spread Violent Appeals Creative Process

Author:Alex Hirsch

“In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.”

Able Term Perfect Love Is Creative Produce Elements Engagement

Author:Alex Hirsch

“Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.”

People Ifs Hard Creative Scene Dramatic Good Times Good Day Had A Good Time

Author:Ayelet Zurer

“With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.”

People Way Want Humans Real Character Shows Action Film Found Stuff Creative Team Fans Balance Exciting Relate Bridges Tone Stakes Creative Team

Author:Clark Gregg

“Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.”

Process Creative Creative Process Viewers Cognitive Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.”

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Author:Josh Lawson

“Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team. I have continuity across different films that I've done. I was even fortunate enough to reach back and include people that had worked on Horton with me, as well.”

People Wells Different Done Enough Film Fall Creative Team Fortunate Continuity Rise And Fall Creative Team

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.”

May Ideas Character Would Be Action Process Creative Right Now Evolve Creative Process Animated Action Movie

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.”

People Knows World Has Beens Two Order Ability Responsibility Creative Type Likes Establishment No Confidence

Author:Yoko Ono

“Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.”

Needs Hard Break Creativity Creative Come Up Stamina

Author:Anna Silk

“Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.”

Believe Acting Creative Painting Be Creative Relevance Painting A Picture

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.”

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Author:Michael Marisi Ornstein

“There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.”

Giving Facts Creative Genre Stamps License Initials Remakes Trepidation

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.”

Creative Projects Casting

Author:Craig Brewer

“What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.”

May Ideas Next Process Sound Creative One Day Solutions Exciting No Idea Remarkable Creative Process Next Day Naive

Author:Jonathan Ive

“The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.”

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Author:Timur Bekmambetov

“We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose.”

Two Happens Purpose Choices Mistake Roles Creative Our Lives Creation Calling Highest Blame Things Happen Bad Things Creative Power Bad Things Happen Two Choices When Bad Things Happen

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.”

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Author:George Gilder

“Yes, your jewelry choices make a difference. When you invest in ethical, heirloom-quality jewelry, you're also investing in the future. Your purchase supports a creative community of like-minded humanitarians, out there doing important work.”

Important Choices Community Differences Quality Support Creative Investing Making A Difference Ethical Jewelry Important Work Heirlooms Investing In The Future

Author:Zoe Helene

“Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.”

Humans Seems Brain Creative Destructive Architect Ecological Human Brain Adaptive

Author:Murray Bookchin

“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Kind Art Individual Stars Creative Example Expression Originals Structure Response Theoretical Creative Work Catalogues Maxwell

Book:The World of Mathematics

Source: The World of Mathematics

“Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.”

People Firsts May Mean Ideas Hands Creative Reasonable Unusual Be Creative

Author:Howard Gardner

“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.”

Feels Stills Process Wonder Creative Essentials Capacity Creative Process

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.”

Creative Elements Discovery Intuition Irrational

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“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.”

Results Creativity Creative Greater Wise Materials Genius Management Critical Saved Combination Originality Creative Genius

Author:Umberto Eco

“Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!”

Chance Creative Flow Juice Take A Chance Creative Juices

Author:Joel Comm

“Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

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