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“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”

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Author:Julie Walters

“If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!”

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Author:Jeffry A Timmons

“I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.”

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Book:No Regrets

Source: No Regrets

“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”

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Author:Doug Dawson

“I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.”

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Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.”

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Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.”

“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.”

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Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.”

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Author:Kieron Gillen

“It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.”

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Author:Cliff Martinez

“Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.”

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Author:Twyla Tharp

“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.”

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Author:John Keats

“... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.”

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Book:Adventures of a White-Collar Man

Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man