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Creativity and imagination
are the beginning of problem-solving for a
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- Fred Rogers |
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Creativity arises out of the
tension between spontaneity and limitations,
the latter (like the river banks) forcing
the spontaneity into the various forms which
are essential to the work of art or poem. |
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- Rollo May |
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Creativity can be described
as letting go of certainties. |
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- Gail Sheehy |
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Creativity can solve almost
any problem. The creative act, the defeat of
habit by originality overcomes everything. |
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- George Lois |
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Creativity comes from
awakening and directing men's higher
natures, which originate in the primal
depths of the uni- verse and are appointed
by Heaven. |
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- I Ching |
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CREATIVITY is thinking up new
things. INNOVATION is doing new things. |
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- Theodore Levitt |
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Creativity involves breaking
out of established patterns in order to look
at things in a different way. |
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- Edward De Bono |
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Creativity is piercing the
mundane to find the marvelous. |
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- Bill Moyers |
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Creativity is the ability to
introduce order into the randomness of
nature. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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Doing easily what others find
is difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible for talent is genius. |
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- Henri Frederic Amiel |
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Don't bother about genius.
Don't worry about being clever. Trust in
hard work, perseverance, and determination.
And the best motto for the long march is:
"Don't grumble. Plug on!" |
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- Frederick Treves |
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Creative thinking may simply
mean the realization that there's no
particular virtue in doing things the way
they've always been done. |
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- Rudolph Flesch |
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For me, the creative process,
first of all, requires a good nine hours of
sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed
by the need to produce practical
applications. |
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- William N. Lipscomb, Jr. |
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I do much of my creative
thinking while golfing. If people know
you're working at home they think nothing of
walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't
dream of interrupting on the golf course. |
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- Harper Lee |
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I've always disliked words
like inspiration. Writing is probably like a
scientist thinking about some scientific
problem, or an engineer about an engineering
problem. |
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- Doris Lessing |
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It seems safe to say that
significant discovery, really creative
thinking, does not occur with regard to
problems about which the thinker is
lukewarm. |
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- Mary Henle |
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Men of genius are not quick
judges of character. Deep thinking and high
imagining blunt that trivial instinct by
which you and I size people up. |
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- Max Beerbohm |
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The kind of intelligence a
genius has is a different sort of
intelligence. The thinking of a genius does
not proceed logically. It leaps with great
ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows
where. |
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- Dorothy Thompson |
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CREATIVITY is thinking up new
things. INNOVATION is doing new things. |
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- Theodore Levitt |
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Creative thinking may simply
mean the realization that there's no
particular virtue in doing things the way
they've always been done. |
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- Rudolph Flesch |
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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. |
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- Ray Bradbury |
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Creative thinking should be
viewed as an essential supplement to, though
not a replacement for, critical thinking. |
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- Lloyd P. Provost |
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Creativity is human activity
that produces original ideas or knowledge,
frequently by testing combinations of data
to produce unique results. |
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- Louis E. Boone |
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Genius may have its
limitations, but stupidity is not this
handicapped. |
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- Elbert Hubbard |
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Creativity is piercing the
mundane to find the marvelous. |
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- Bill Moyers |
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Creativity is the ability to
introduce order into the randomness of
nature. |
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- Eric Hoffer |
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Force always attracts men of
low morality, and I believe it to be an
invariable rule that tyrants of genius are
succeeded by scoundrels. |
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- Albert Einstein |
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Genius is present in every
age, but the men carrying it within them
remain benumbed unless extraordinary events
occur to heat up and melt the mass so that
it flows forth. |
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- Denis Diderot |
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Geniuses are commonly
believed to excel other men in their power
of sustained attention . . . But it is their
genius making them attentive, not their
attention making geniuses of them. |
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- William James |
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I divide my time as follows:
half the time I sleep, the other half I
dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that
would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest
accomplishment of genius. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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I long to speak out the
intense inspiration that comes to me from
the lives of strong women. |
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- Ruth Benedict |
