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#1

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt

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#2

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity

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#3

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity

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#4

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery

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#5

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

tags: creativity

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#6

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
― Brene Brown

tags: change, creativity, innovation, vulnerability

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#7

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: advice, apple, business, creativity, ileadership, leadership, mac, macintosh

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#8

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

tags: creativity, great-quotes, inspirational

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#9

“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
― Stephen King

tags: comedy, creativity, tragedy

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#10

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

tags: creativity, failure, original

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#11

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

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#12

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: creativity, genius, poem-in-your-pocket-day

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#13

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

tags: creativity

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#14

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: art, creativity, life, love, monotony, passion, time, variety, work

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#15

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
― Brenda Ueland

tags: creativity, expression, humanity, talent, writing

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#16

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

tags: affirmation, art, creativity

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#17

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning

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#18

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

tags: creativity, life

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#19

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

tags: creativity

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#20

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity

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#21

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

tags: creativity, inspiration, philosophy, vitality

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#22

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters

tags: art, creativity, inspiration, writing, writing-advice-process

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#23

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren

tags: aeshetics, age, aging, creativity, youth

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#24

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: colors, creativity, diversity, idic, innovation, inspirational, invention, music, problem-solving

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#25

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: creativity, humour, pessimistic, writing

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#26

“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: alone, charge, creativity, designer, energy, fame, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, loneliness, lonely, media, quote, quotes, recharge, solitude, victory

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#27

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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#28

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

tags: advice, art, crayons, creativity, humor, writing

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#29

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: patience

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#30

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
― Charles Buxton

tags: time

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