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“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.”

World Two Ideas Together Creativity Rocks Around The World Flames Sparks Satisfying New Ideas

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“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

“It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two - to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.”

People Two Whole Helping Seems Purpose Creativity Amount Workshops

Author:Freeman Patterson

“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.”

Two Spirit Given Stars Creativity Creative Saws Greater Particular Aspect Perfection Absolutes Mood Cosmos Makers Barren

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionas making a spark requires two things struck together.”

Two Together Creativity Creative Two Things Sparks Juxtaposition

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.”

Ifs Want Two Creativity Budgets Zero Sustainability

Author:Jaime Lerner

“there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”

Two Seems Difficult Creativity Creation Reception

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.”

People Two States Moving Creativity Creative Gears Creative People

Author:Guy Claxton

“It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.”

Doe Two Culture Natural Creativity Civilization

Book:What are Masterpieces

Source: What are Masterpieces

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

May Two Eye Poetry Imagination Common Numbers Creativity Creation Poet Birth Exercise Aspect Ideals Function Add All Time Motive Poetic Imaginative Uncommon

Author:Walter Pater

“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”

Knows Want Mean Two Different Wisdom America Past Reading Asks Speak Voice Knowledge Creativity History Citizens Asking Originals Quitting Historian Monarchy

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.”

People Thinking Humans Art Two Facts Spirit Individual Common Principles Creativity Creative Art Is Celebrate Discovering Art And Science Creative Spirit

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“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

“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.”

Two Left Creativity College Theory Months Innovation Independence Competition Rewards Curiosity Conformity Collaboration Application Schooled Two Months

Author:Dale J. Stephens

“Producing and deejaying are two different outlets to the same creativity. When I'm in the studio I get to create and go through my process. When I'm on stage I get to share the results of that process with everybody. It's two different experiences but they both go back to the same thing and I love them both.”

Two Different Process Results Creativity Share Stage Studios Outlets Different Experiences

Author:Justin Smith

“Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.”

Ifs Way Two Different Helping Asks Creativity Fields Football Skills Nervous Ask Me Piano Improvisation Playing Piano

Author:Joey Harrington

“The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Two Sides Creativity Devil Responsible Monsters Human Mind Medal Two Sides Cathedrals Mint Pathology Splendour Gargoyles

Book:Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

Source: Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70

“To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole. I work things out on an electric that's not plugged in to make sure a good tone isn't forgiving a part that couldn't stand up naked. Only after the parts are written will I struggle to find a tone that supports the creativity.”

Needs Two Whole Creativity Support Struggle Written Forgiving Guitar Naked Tone Electric Gears

Author:Richard Lloyd

“Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.”

World Two Sides Creativity Coins Two Sides Best Of Both Worlds

Author:David Allen

“If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.”

Ifs Want Giving Two Sound Creativity Records Minutes Thirty If I Could Seconds Snares

Author:Nikki Sixx

“There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.”

People Two Sometimes Sides Creativity Player Technique Songwriters Coins Intuitive Two Sides Eric Hendrix

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.”

Two Challenges Creativity Keys Unions European Union Fruitfulness

Author:Pope Francis

“I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.”

People Thinking Feels Two Important Night Levels Creativity Struggle Skills Demand Highest Areas Theater Exposed Every Night Improvisation Intimidated

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.”

Believe Two Lines Creativity Illness Mental Illness

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.”

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”

“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.”

World Way Feels Two Different Film Creativity Different Ways Parallels

Author:Mandy Moore

“It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.”

Source: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

“I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.”

People Should Two Numbers Creativity Calling Add 1960s Gallery Unfinished Artwork Unfinished Work

Author:Yoko Ono

“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.”

Thinking Writing Two Stories Certain Passion Actors Ability Rooms Creativity Novel Amount Skills Short Story Stamina

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.”

People Needs Humans Two Ends Sometimes Body Happens Creativity Innovation Kicks Seats Pants Human Body

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.”

Ifs Two Helping Use Heaven Imagination Simple Space Rooms Creativity Doors Exercise Hundred Exciting Stranger Tiny Inches Amazed Toilets Stretching Time Flies How Time Flies

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.”

Two Hands Pain Force Pleasure Creativity Creation Divine Aspect Pain And Pleasure Demonic

Book:My Name Is Asher Lev

Source: My Name Is Asher Lev

“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”

Two Success Business Creativity Function Innovation Entrepreneur Marketing Workplace Business Innovation Business Growth Innovation And Business

Book:Management

Source: Management

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

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