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“I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

Thinking Creativity Meetings Boards Schedules Calendars Appointments Caustic Board Meetings

Author:David Karp

“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.”

Should Mind Important Ends Decision Creativity Technology Policy Happenings Privacy Discouraged Files Copyright Making Decisions Collision Be Encouraged

Author:Edward Felten

“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”

Secret Creativity Genius Mechanic

Author:Al Seckel

“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”

Feels Art Desire Creativity Events Poet Worship Impulse Awe Works Of Art Transformed Passive Rite Provoked

Author:W. H. Auden

“Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.”

Mind Humans Two Literature Perfect Creativity Information Creation Fool Personality Conscious Function Deeper Surface Human Mind Two Personalities

Author:E. M. Forster

“But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.”

Creativity Alive Creator

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.”

Humans Spiritual Motivation Spirituality Games Names Animal Compassion Creativity Survival Curiosity Unconditional Love Irrelevant Unconditional Human Animal Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Beings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.”

Inspirational Art Motivational Natural Creativity Art Is Crafts Sunshine Nourishment

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.”

Wisdom Reality Pleasure Creativity Tension Fuse Libido

Book:Daring to Be Yourself

Source: Daring to Be Yourself

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.”

People Life Mean Dies Born Creativity Creative Birth Creativeness

Author:Erich Fromm

“I don't think you'll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?”

Thinking Want Needs Humans Ends Inspiration Decision Creativity Judgment Asking Intuition Right Thing The End Of The Day Decision Making Asking Questions Inspiration And Creativity

Author:Laszlo Bock

“Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in motion-intuitive, artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost and help you feel energized and good about yourself.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.”

Inspirational Joy Creativity Knowing Not Knowing

Book:The Joy of Not Knowing It All: Profiting from Creativity at Work Or Play

Source: The Joy of Not Knowing It All: Profiting from Creativity at Work Or Play

“Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.”

Knows Creativity

Book:The Joy of Not Knowing It All: Profiting from Creativity at Work Or Play

Source: The Joy of Not Knowing It All: Profiting from Creativity at Work Or Play

“My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.”

Trying Humans I Can Body Healing Creativity Conditions Health Track Attraction Law Of Attraction Fulfillment Get Back Maximum Always Trying Barometer

Author:Christiane Northrup

“You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So.”

Inspirational Creativity Millionaire

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”

“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.”

People Thinking World Needs Mind May Ideas Creativity Creative Gratitude Drug Claims Sells Add Wander Experts Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Hal Elrod

“A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.”

Persons Play Might Able Creativity Creative Innovation Be Creative

Author:Kurt Hanks

“Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.”

People Creativity Creative Picks Wet Creative People Towels

Author:Charles Revson

“There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.”

Art Matter Inspiring Creativity Subjects Absence Subject Matter

Book:Drawing in Color - Animals

Source: Drawing in Color - Animals

“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.”

People Trying Creativity Creepy High Points Really Creepy

Author:J. Robbins

“When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.”

Kind Wanted Creativity Growing Up Comedy Growing Ultimate Feeding Parody Spinal Tap

Author:Ben Stiller

“One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.”

Knows Way Needs Fighting Creativity Difficulty Insight Mindset Driving Consumers Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.”

Should Desire Speak Creativity Creative Conjecture

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

Book Creativity Cutting Alive Creation Building Strange Creating Breaths Add Delicate Inward Organisms Urgency Creative Mind Overpowering Creating Music Gifted Children

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?”

Ifs Creativity Creative Creation Asking Fundamentals Factors Be Creative

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.”

Thinking Understanding Creativity Casts Spells Haze Hypnotic

Author:Albert Einstein

“Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.”

Soul Night Dark Views Creativity Majority Crowds Chosen Spells Avenues Flowering Proximity

Book:A Passion for Truth

Source: A Passion for Truth

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

People Thinking Way Should Term Accepting Creativity Tradition Originality Apology Conventional Spectacular Creative Thinking Accept Me Conventional Ways

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!”

People Way Age Spiritual Courses Creativity Worry Too Much Materialism Materialistic

Author:Robert Frost

“If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.”

Ifs Mean Jobs Choices Opportunity Pay Creativity Spending Profession Our Family Spending Time Looking For Work Spending Time With You

Book:The Art Of Happiness At Work

Source: The Art Of Happiness At Work

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“I'm happy to have L.A.M.B. participate in the PSP accessories show as I've always loved designing bags and accessories, It's all about creativity at the end of the day, whether you're talking about fashion, technology or music, and that's what my L.A.M.B. bags are about.”

Ends Shows Talking Creativity Technology Fashion Design The End Of The Day Bags Accessories

Author:Gwen Stefani

“Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.”

Knows Creativity Know How Rivers Winter

Book:The essential Neruda: selected poems

Source: The essential Neruda: selected poems

“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.”

“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”

Able Mother Creativity Stage Creator Producers Productive Magnitude Skip Gestation Loafing

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.”

Reading Brain Watches Creativity Television Involved Creator

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.”

Leader Creativity Wonderful Band Degrees Originals Composition Arrangements Assured Drummer Possessing

Author:Joe Locke

“True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.”

“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

Way Purpose Artist Values Goal Creativity Habit Demand Achievement Expectations Resources Ultimate Manage Purity Mastery Continuity Validation Ultimate Goal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.”

Stills Lost Accepting Creativity Power Creative Occasions Efficient Anchors Spine

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.”

Giving Mean Form Creativity Style Determine Limitation

Author:Georges Braque

“Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.”

Mean Doe Stars Education Creativity Basketball Nba

Author:Edward de Bono

“Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.”

Mind Creativity Depth Unconsciousness

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.”

Knows Ends Energy Creativity Creative Talent Activity Draws Mathematics Cooking Woods Drawing Disaster Experiments Imaginative Carving Drivel

Author:Julia Child

“bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.”

Creativity Shock

Author:Edward Gibbon

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