Creative Quotes

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In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandingâ€”in… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute… — Alfred P. Sloan
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly… — Carl Rogers
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your… — Stephen Covey
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in… — Stephen Covey
The Costa Rica experience shows that with dedicated resources, creative institutions, and a sound legal framework, deforestation can be reversed and forest cover expanded. — Bruno Stagno Ugarte
I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our… — Brenda Ueland
Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted… — Brenda Ueland
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It… — Emile Durkheim
Every problem has a creative solution. — Donna Karan
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has… — Christopher Dawson
Nothing needs to happen to a writerâ€™s life after they are 20. By then theyâ€™ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life. — Flannery O'Connor
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in… — Rick Springfield
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative. — Edward Sapir
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case… — Henry Mintzberg
Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is… — Stephen Covey
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy. — Stephen Covey

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