Creative Quotes

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Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired… — Thomas Troward
My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense… — Caroline Kennedy
In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a… — Jared Leto
Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes… — Richard Kent
If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery. — John Maeda
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. — Cynthia Heimel
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no… — Jacob Bronowski
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.… — Brian Stableford
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important… — Richard Willstatter
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his… — Walter J. Phillips
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to… — Maxwell Maltz
Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries. — Ellen Langer
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor… — Edward de Bono
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter… — Brian Tracy
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. — Seneca the Younger
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people… — Maya Angelou

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