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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.”

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.”

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.”

“Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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

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

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

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

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.”

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”