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“One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.”

Children Enough Lasts Creativity Like You Ought Lifetime Dust

Author:Eric Maisel

“If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.”

“Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.”

Way Lasts Creativity Resorts Improvisation

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.”

Thinking Looks Lasts Form Joy Turns Opportunity Process Creativity Generations Design Perspective Projects Discovery Experiments Outcomes Fleeting Tangible Prototype Heirlooms

Author:Tim Brown

“The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.”

Humans Lasts Left Imagination Creativity Planets Adventure Exploration Human Imagination

Author:Wim Wenders

“There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Lasts Opinion Creativity Technology Evolution Amount Equal Happenings Meetings Decades Two Things Remarkable Unbelievable Intersections Pioneering

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Kind I Can Hard Light Lasts Song Asks Process Creativity Audience Fire Hard Work Expectations Percent Writing Process Vacuums

Author:Andrew Bird

“We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment.”

“Although work was, and still is, considered an important part of Osho's vision, in the last years of his life, he began to emphasize creativity as a way of expressing and sharing the fruits of our meditation.”

Way Years Stills Important Lasts Vision Creativity Meditation Fruit Last Year

Author:Swami Anand Milarepa

“In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.”

Needs Giving Long Art Facts Lasts Faces Order Emotion Creativity Skins Bases Access Planes Performing Rejection Paradox Thick Performing Arts Thick Skin

Author:Audra McDonald

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.”

Lasts Turns Creativity Minutes Mood Panic Procrastination Turn-on Last Minute

Author:Bill Watterson