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“Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.”

Moments Creativity Impression Glorious Lightning Creativeness

Author:Abraham Maslow

“We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.”

Ifs Faces Creativity Miracle Abandon Amazement Inspire Creativity

Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”

People Humans Might Lost Creativity Crippled Creativity And Innovation Human Potential Inspire Creativity Good Questions

Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.”

People Self Success Values Justice Levels Creativity Goodness Appreciate Simplicity Fulfillment Uniqueness Wholeness High Level Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Self Fulfillment

Author:Abraham Maslow

“People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.”

People Process Creativity Creative Alive Paid Rewards Meaningless Creative Process

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.”

People Thinking Creativity Confidence Blind Discouraged

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Creativity is no big deal.”

Bigs Deals Creativity Big Deal

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.”

Creativity Fake Competence Arousal

Author:Douglas Coupland

“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.”

Artist Creativity Creative Intention Reactions Chains Realization Subjective

Book:The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

“Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.”

Men Goal Results Creativity Creative Activity Universal Connected Really Happy

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”

Art Moments Artist Lost Creativity Creative Worship Glory Former Glory Of God Cords Umbilical Cord

Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.”

People Facts Creativity Creative Creation Intelligent Surface Visible Genesis

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.”

Art Form Natural Results Creativity Creation Art Is Dimensions Works Of Art Entering Distortion Reborn Pictorial Natural Forms

Author:Paul Klee

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.”

Situation Creativity Critical Responding

Author:John Cleese

“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.”

May Certain Ability Levels Creativity Example Intelligent Surprise Intellect

Author:John Cleese

“I never got a job I didn't create for myself.”

Jobs Creativity

Author:Ruth Gordon

“It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.”

Moving Artist Process Creativity Mystery Creation Periods Timing Receptivity Birthing

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.”

Political Creativity Mass Management Participation Glasnost

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.”

Creativity Dependent Succession Suggesting

Author:Edwin Land

“Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

Force Creativity Flower Green Dylan Fuse

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“Creativity is not and never has been sensible.”

Has Beens Creativity Sensible

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.”

Needs Joy Process Enjoy Results Creativity Focus Products Surrender

Author:Julia Cameron

“Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.”

Creativity Findings

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.”

Men Creativity Men And Women Myth Pygmalion

Author:Zoe Kazan

“The secret of success in business is creativity.”

Business Secret Creativity Business Success Secret To Success

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.”

Real Enough Shows Light Artist Creativity Skills Ideals True Artists

Author:Roger Scruton

“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.”

Ideas School Culture Company Creativity Fashion Solitude Achievement Gregarious Groupthink

Author:Susan Cain

“What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.”

People Knows Persons Character Might Creativity Huge Amount Details

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“We make versions, and true versions make worlds.”

World Creativity Versions

Author:Nelson Goodman

“People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.”

People May Hard Together Difficult Creativity Aspect Filmmaking

Author:Robert Greenwald

“I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.”

Thinking Helping Creativity Very Happy Cathartic

Author:Winston Graham

“The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...”

Way Kind Creativity Chaos Dialogue One Way Intimacy Controlled Intensity Synergy Controlled Chaos

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.”

World Three Religious Leader Creativity Path Sadness Philosophical Catholic Extremes Passing Passings Artistic Holiness Pope John Paul John Paul Ii Artistic Creativity Pope John Paul

Author:Mohammad Khatami

“Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.”

Ifs Art Creativity Creation Building Reuse

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

Mean Art Able Artist Creativity Technology Creating Painter Efficient Primitive Ingenious Famous Artist Creating New Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”

Thinking Motivation Term Money Creativity Behavior Performances Crush Diminish Short Term Unethical Intrinsic Motivation Short Term Thinking

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.”

Play Turns Common Creativity Rewards Satisfaction Misuse Personal Satisfaction

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.”

Light Passion Creativity Connected

Author:Amy Poehler

“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.”

Knows Reason Earth Form Opportunity Creativity Depends Habit Normal Spring Accidents Disaster Extinction Dinosaurs New Opportunity Speciation

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.”

Knows Giving Art Ideas Form Creativity Air Mystery Inspired Patterns Encounters New Ideas

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

Past Imagination Creativity Rejects Status Quo

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.”

People Problem Creativity Comfortable Solutions Conformity

Author:Charles H. Brower

“You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.”

Way Can Do Creativity Creative Obstacles Impulse Smooth

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.”

People Ifs Poverty Creativity Aids Cents Efficiency Urgency

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.”

Certain Felt Creativity Weight Absence Dimensions Overwhelming Propositions God's Presence Supposition

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.”

Courses Opinion Creativity Discovery Invention Criteria Creativeness Discovery And Invention

Author:Josef Albers

“Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.”

Work Creativity Expression Slavery Duplicate

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

Children Art Stills Use Certain Stuff Lines Creativity Talent Taught College Color Draws Collecting

Author:Beverly L. Kaye

“That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.”

Want Littles Play School Guy Fun Creativity Creative Middle Position College High School Traditional Tendencies Nervous League Mobile Quarterback Middle School Little League

Author:Kordell Stewart

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