Creative Quotes

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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision. — Chuck Klosterman
Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage… — David Ogilvy
I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think… — Unknown Author
I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to… — Unknown Author
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge. — John Gruber
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as… — George Washington Carver
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find… — Edwin Land
Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect. — James A. Michener
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out. — Robert Greenberg
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. — Coco Chanel
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. — Richard Florida
In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases,… — Danielle LaPorte
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn… — Adolf Hitler
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution. — Bill Hybels
Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world. — Scott Belsky
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure. — Saul Bass
Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation… — Teresa Amabile
We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions. — Unknown Author
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum… — Robert McKee

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