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“If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.”

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Author:Christian Louboutin

“I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.”

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Author:Christian Louboutin

“Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.”

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Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.”

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Author:David Lynch

“I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”

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Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.”

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Author:Martina McBride

“Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.”

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Author:Jon McGregor

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

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Author:Sarah McLachlan

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”

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Author:Bill Moyers

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.”

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Author:David Neeleman

“The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.”

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Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”

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Author:Earl Nightingale

“Everything begins with an idea.”

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Book:How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Compleat

Source: How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Compleat

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”

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Author:Carroll O'Connor

“Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.”

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Author:Martha Beck