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“Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.”

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Author:Teresa Amabile

“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.”

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Author:John Daido Loori

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

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Author:Stephen Leacock

“Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.”

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Author:Julia Cameron

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

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Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.”

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Author:Peter Saville